Kathmandu, Dec. 18 -- After being elected for a third consecutive term as chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), KP Sharma Oli has called on his cadres to confront the interim government by force.

After taking the oath as party chairman for a third consecutive term following a nearly week-long mammoth general convention that formally ended on Thursday, Oli called for violence in his nearly hour-long victory speech.

Addressing newly elected office-bearers and central committee members, Oli urged his cadres and supporters to launch a decisive struggle against what he termed anti-democratic moves by the government.

"The leadership of CPN-UML is undeterred by the ill-campaigning and traps. The physical...