Is Ruling Alliance On The Skids?

With the CPN-Maoist Centre deciding to put up its own candidate for the post of National Assembly (NA) chair, a sense of mutual mistrust is dramatically spreading between Nepali Congress (NC) and the former, threatening the continuation of the coalition government. In its recent Standing Committee (SC) meeting, almost all members pressed the leadership to field their own candidate for the Upper House chairman election slated for March 12. The Maoist stalwarts argue that if they fail to get NA chair, their party have no representative in the Constitutional Council, a powerful organ that recommends the office-bearers of constitutional bodies.