Ruling party wants to gag its leaders to suppress criticism and dissent
Kathmandu, Sept. 18 -- Late on Monday night, at least two ministers told the Post that the Cabinet earlier in the evening decided to recommend to the President ruling Nepal Communist Party vice-chair Bamdev Gautam's nomination for the National Assembly.
On Tuesday, however, Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali, also the government spokesperson, during a press briefing organised to make public Monday's Cabinet decision,s did not mention Gautam's recommendation.
On Wednesday, the government sent a recommendation to the Office of the President to nominate him to the upper house. Gautam took the oath on Thursday.
It was not clear why a decision already taken by the party's Secretariat on September 3 and then approved by the Cabinet on Monday h...
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