Election Commission earns disrepute over communist party legitimacy indecision

The commission has time and again failed to resist influence despite being a constitutional body, observers say.

Former prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal earlier this Sunday expressed his displeasure at the Election Commission’s ‘indecision’ regarding the complaint that his faction of the ruling CPN-UML had registered at the constitutional body over Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s ‘unilateral’ decision to induct new central committee members.