Friday, January 15, 2016

Don't ignore world view, PM KP Oli warns

Posted by Anup Baral January 15, 2016:


Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has warned the ruling establishment not to take the views of the international community, including the United Nations, the European Union, and India, who are supporting the seven party alliance, for granted. “People who have been picked up to serve as Bhardars (courtiers) should not try to manipulate the international community. The latter cannot be expected to share their views,” Oli said while speaking at the Reporters’ Club today. Efforts to pick up a fight with India, the UN and the EU will have worst consequences, he warned, adding that the the incumbent dispensation should not have double standard on foreign intervention. “When certain countries back them (people in the government), they take it as their success. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, commonly known as K. P. Oli, is a Nepali politician and the Prime Minister of Nepal since 11 October 2015. He is the first Prime Minister under the newly adopted Constitution of Nepal.Born in the hills in eastern Nepal on February 22, 1952, Oli was educated in the plains of Jhapa in eastern Nepal, where he became influenced by local communist leaders as a teenager. In 1970, Oli became a member of the Nepal Communist Party and began an underground life, as the erstwhile royal regime cracked down on communists. Oli spent 14 years in jail during autocratic monarchy for his involvement with radical communist politics, but has veered to the right in the last two decades. The secondary school dropout won elections to parliament in 1991, 1999, 2008 and 2013. He served as home minister in 1994 and foreign minister in 2007. In February 2014, his party elected him chairman. CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has been elected the new Prime Minister of Nepal, following the promulgation of the new constitution of Federal Republic Nepal. kp oli In a voting for the post of the Prime Minister held at the Legislature-Parliament today, Oli won with a total of 338 votes, out of the total 587 votes cast. The total existing number of parliamentarians is 597. The second candidate in the fray, Sushil Koirala, President of Nepali Congress and outgoing Prime Minister bagged a total of 249 votes. The votes CPN-UML Chair received include 183 of his own party, 83 from UCPN (Maoist), 25 from RPP Nepal and 14 from Madheshi Janadhikar Forum-Democratic. Likewise, 12 from RPP, 5 from CPN-ML, 3 from Rastriya Janamorcha, 2 from Nepal Pariwar Dal, 2 from Rastriya Janamukti Party, one each from Madhesh Samata Party Nepal, Nepa Rastriya Party and CPN-United also came in favour of leader Oli.

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