Ruling alliance in a fix as it faces a host of challenges

Coalition partners differ over MCC as crisis in the judiciary makes it more difficult for them to make a joint stance.

The incumbent government came into being after a long struggle. Five fronts—Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), a faction of the CPN-UML, a group of the Janata Samajbadi Party and the Rastriya Janamorcha—had come together to oust the KP Sharma Oli government .