Nepal, Feb. 5 -- To say CPN-UML chairperson KP Sharma Oli does not like Madhav Kumar Nepal, his erstwhile party colleague and now the chair of CPN (Unified Socialist), would be an understatement. Oli abhors Nepal. When Oli, as prime minister, unconstitutionally dissolved the parliament in 2021, Nepal broke away to form his own party. But Oli's loathing goes back much farther. When the two were contesting the UML's chair back in 2014, Oli resorted to the vilest personal attacks against Nepal to build his case for party leadership. Reporters interviewing Oli back then would be left aghast at this lack of even basic decency.

This old enmity has gotten a new twist as Oli has started an all-out campaign to prevent Nepal from becoming the prim...