UML's exit from government

Finally PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal has shown coalition partner UML the exit door. UML has decided to quit the government as well as withdraw its support.

UML’s abrupt volte-face decision must have surprised many. Earlier, it had decided to hang onto power till elections to the president are over, irrespective of PM Dahal switching alliances. The party’s decision to quit has been triggered by unceremonious last minute cancellation, at the behest of PM Dahal, of a foreign trip by its minister for foreign affairs to Geneva to attend a UN meeting.