Kathmandu, Nov. 10 -- A meeting of the ruling alliance on Monday formed an 11-member "coordination committee" to support the Sher Bahadur Deuba government.

The idea was pushed by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chair of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). Dahal had made a similar push when KP Sharma Oli was prime minister. At that time, Oli and Dahal were chairing the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which was born out of a merger between the CPN-UML and the Maoist Centre. Oli, however, rejected the idea. The two parties were revived by a Supreme Court order on March 7.

At present, Dahal's Maoist Centre is a key coalition partner in the Deuba government.

As per the agreement, the Nepali Congress, the Maoist Centre, the CPN (Unified Socialist...