Kathmandu, May 15 -- Prime Minister KP Oli and Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba are at odds over the leadership of the Non-Resident Nepali Association, an umbrella organization of Nepali expatriates worldwide.

The prime minister and his foreign minister are now backing and supporting two rival factions within the NRNA and this has further intensified the leadership dispute that has long plagued the organisation of the Nepali diaspora.

The dispute inside NRNA goes back several years, but the association was vertically divided in October 2023 after Badri KC was elected president of the organisation. The election results were opposed and boycotted by two of his close rivals, Mahesh Shrestha and RK Sharma, backed by the Nepali Congress and ...