Kathmandu, Feb. 10 -- Despite appearing quiet in public, the CPN-UML is aggressively reaching out to its cadres ahead of the March 5 parliamentary elections, using phone calls and letters to rally support for party chair KP Sharma Oli.

On Monday afternoon, when Post visited the UML central office in Chyasal, the office seemed unusually quiet. Most senior leaders had left for various districts for campaign work. However, a small group of youths-mostly of college-going age-was busy moving about the premises lists in hand, calling party workers across the country.

According to a leader present at the party office, the youths have been assigned to personally relay party chair Oli's message to cadres across the country. They were contacting ...