Kathmandu, March 7 -- Nepal's political drama took another unexpected turn on Sunday as the Supreme Court ruled that the name Nepal Communist Party (NCP) belonged to another group, taking the country back to where it was three years ago when the ruling party was made up of two entities.

The 12-page decision came two hours before the House of Representatives reconvened after another Supreme Court ruling on 23 February thatoverturned Prime Minister K P Oli's decision two months earlier to dissolve the Houseand call early elections.

Sunday's decision means that for all practical purposes the NCP is once more divided between Oli's moderate left Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party and the Maoist Centre led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

Dahal had ...