Nepal Communist Party seeks PM KP Oli’s resignation over remark on India

Members of the ruling Nepal Communist Party now want PM Oli to step down from his post, media reports said.

This comes after PM Oli on Sunday alleged that meetings are being organized in India to topple his government.

Oli said the ouster plan will fail.

“Plots are being hatched to topple me for releasing the country’s new map and getting it adopted through Parliament,” he said while addressing a function on Sunday.

“Given the ongoing intellectual discussions, media reports from New Delhi, embassy’s activities and meetings at different hotels in Kathmandu, it is not very difficult to understand how people are openly active to oust me. But they won’t succeed," he had said.

However, the remark earned him backlash in his country with former PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" slamming Oli for the same.

“As things progressed, party co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal asked PM Oli to quit owing to the government’s gross, all-round incompetence, according to a source close to Dahal. Many NCP (NCP) leaders came down heavily on PM Oli for failing to deliver as well as for applying diversion tactics to fend off criticisms,” the Himalayan Times report said.

The House of Representatives of Nepal this month passed the Constitutional Amendment Bill revising the Coat of Arms of Nepal which has included a stretch of land in the mountains that India claims as its own.

Out of the 275 members of Nepal's House of Representatives, 258 votes went in favour of the amendment bill, which was passed by a two-thirds majority.

The new map of Nepal includes a portion of land on the east of river Kali, which extends out from the northwestern tip of Nepal.

The area includes the Lipulekh Pass in Uttarakhand and also Limpiyadhura and Kalapani, which are strategically significant areas for India and the country has been guarding since the 1962 war with China.