KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that he is leading the country with a long-term stable policy. He argued that the stability in the government attributes to an unpredicted mandate of a two-thirds majority.
The prime minister, who is also the Chairman of Nepal Communist Party (NCP), remarked so during an in-flight television interview while returning from New Delhi after attending the swearing-in ceremony of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.
PM’s remarks come after another Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal reminded Oli to demit the prime minister’s office honoring a power-sharing deal reached while unification between the two communist forces.
In the interview, the prime minister questioned the motive of ‘such baseless controversy fanned by media’.
Though he dismissed any possibility of a potential clash of titans within the party, he was quick to add that they were busier with more important national issues.
“Trivial talks like this are being projected as if the nation is facing a big crisis that demands immediate solution,” he said, adding that his government was committed to providing good governance and development and will continue for a full term.
He questioned how his absence in the government will affect the stability of the government with a stronghold of a two-thirds majority.
‘Do you want the country to replace the political discourse of national development by talks of unification between the parties?” he questioned, adding: “A new controversy engineered with a motive to divert the attention of the people of Nepal has been raging the country.”
He denied that his relations with Dahal had gone sour.
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