In attacking Oli, Dahal ratchets up incendiary rhetoric, only to draw flak

Civil society members say the House dissolution move is wrong but taking violent means to find a solution to it will be equally wrong, as it will put the country on the slippery slope.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a two-time prime minister and a former rebel leader, is known as a masterly orator. There was a time when people would gather in thousands to listen to him—it was during those days when his Maoist party had just laid down arms after a decade-long insurgency, in which around 13,000 people lost their lives.