After Nepal Communist Party, now CPN-UML heading towards vertical split

Oli constitutes a 19-member Standing Committee excluding leaders close to leader Nepal in an indication that the two leaders are prepared to go their separate ways.

After what looked like their last-ditch effort to read each other’s mind and demonstrate that they made genuine efforts to patch up differences, KP Sharma Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal, who are leading separate factions in the CPN-UML, are back to regular business–attacking each other.