Kathmandu, June 30 -- What Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has long been attempting to avoid has finally come to pass-three top leaders from the ruling Nepal Communist Party, including Oli's co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, have demanded that he resign as both prime minister and party chair.

Executive chair Dahal, senior leaders Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhala Nath Khanal, Bamdev Gautam and Narayan Kaji Shrestha, along with 11 other Standing Committee members who spoke at Tuesday's meeting, sought Oli's resignation as prime minister and party chair on the grounds that he had failed to effectively run the government and the party.

"Not only Dahal, all Standing Committee members who spoke today univocally demanded Oli's resignation from both the party...