Oli agrees to revoke ordinance but his actions have come into question

Observers say the prime minister is making a mockery of the system by issuing ordinances and withdrawing them and losing legitimacy to govern.

A high drama at Baluwatar seems to have come to an end just as it had started. Two chairs of the Nepal Communist Party until Tuesday evening were in such a confrontational mode—KP Sharma Oli in action and Pushpa Kamal Dahal in verbose—that it looked like nothing could save them from parting ways. But in a dramatic turn of events, 24 hours later, the two chairmen on Wednesday evening clinched a truce.