Nepal’s new Prime Minister is KP Sharma Oli who took over from Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Apart from governance issues, Oli also faces the challenge of how Nepal will balance India-China relations as well as internal governance issues, KP Sharma Oli’s fourth term as Nepal’s Prime Minister marks the beginning of a new chapter amid political turmoil in the Himalayan nation, Oli is heading the 13th new government since the abolition of the Nepal monarchy in 2008.
The House of Representatives of Nepal now looks something like this, the new Nepal government has a majority of 193 seats in the 275-member House, CPNL headed by Oli and Nepal Congress headed by Sher Bahadur, DEA are the largest parties in the new government, besides there are smaller parties as part of a comprehensive deal between Oli and Dooba, the two parties will lead the government in rotation until the next general elections in 2027, incidentally this deal has not been made public nationally, Oli is facing a tough challenge to provide political stability in the Himalayan nation, we can expect at least relative stability, political stability in the country after the formation of the new government because you know these are the two largest parties, the two big parties in the federal parliament.
they have a majority in most provincial assemblies so they have already agreed that three of the provincial government will be taken by the Nepali Congress and three others by the UCPNL but in terms of local government.
I think there will be a change because the mayors and deputy mayors of the local government are very powerful and they cannot be changed and he is directly elected but one needs to look more closely, particularly from the Indian and Chinese perspective, whether there will be any stand from these two countries India Nepal relations hit an old bone of contention during OI’s first term in 2015 OI had blamed the 2015 Nepal blockade on Indian intervention whether it was implemented or not.
Mr OIi is the Prime Minister but then he will not have such a free hand and there is the Nepali Congress which will ensure checks and balances in terms of his decisions Our relations with India are very smooth.