Pro-monarchy RPP emerges kingmaker in provinces

Ruling coalition turns to it to form provincial governments after a month of abandonment. Party still non-committal.

Over the years the CPN-UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have been partners in different governments. Kamal Thapa, chairman of then RPP-Nepal (now RPP) was deputy prime minister in the first government of KP Sharma Oli, the UML chairperson, in 2015.