Kathmandu, April 7 -- There are just so many layers of party and factional interests, alliances and dalliances, marriages of convenience and messy divorces, egos, ambitions, and personal vendetta involved, that it is difficult to delve beyond daily headlines about who stabbed whom in the back today.

We must start with the central protagonist, the man everyone seems to love to hate, Prime Minister K P Oli. He has proved all pundits wrong by surviving both medically and politically. This does not look like a man who has two kidney transplants-he appears stronger than ever.

He has outlasted relentless pressure from the combined strength of rivals within the NCP and a constant media broadside, to unseat him. When cornered, he has used natio...