Kathmandu, July 5 -- On Thursday, when Standing Committee members of the ruling Nepal Comunist Party were waiting for the meeting to convene, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli suddenly called a Cabinet meeting.

The Cabinet meeting ended as soon as it had started. Some of the ministers, who are also Standing Committee members, even could not attend the meeting, which had taken a decision to recommend prorogation of the Parliament session. Sheetal Niwas swiftly endorsed the recommendation. Sessions of both the House of Representatives and the National Assembly ended from 5pm that very day.

Those in government argue that prorogation of a parliamentary session is purely the prerogative of the government and that since there was no business for t...