Nepal, March 18 -- Chand has very little to lose and everything to gain by creating mayhem. The NCP has everything to lose and nothing to gain by ignoring him forever

In a move rich with irony, the government of Nepal Communist Party (NCP)-colloquially called NCP Double-claimed that the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist led by Netra Bikram Chand was a criminal group and proscribed all its activities. Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa issued these orders. He was a mentor and comrade-in-arms of Chand during decade-long armed conflict.

Having obtained the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) in a political deal of outright acquisition, Supremo Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli is perhaps correct in his assumption that he now has the monopoly right ...