Kathmandu, July 4 -- After being cornered within his own party, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is seeking support from the sister organisations of the ruling Nepal Communist Party to prop up his grip on power.

Oli on Thursday evening invited leaders of the party's student and youth organisations at his residence and asked them to create a "favourable environment" for him on different fronts. Reiterating that foreign forces wanted to unseat him, he asked the students and youths to thwart such attempts.

"Even general members of the sister organisations have been asked to vote in favour of Oli and his government in opinion polls," Naresh Regmi, a central working committee member of All Nepal National Independent Student Union, told the Post....