KATHMANDU, JUNE 1
A war of words broke out between two top leaders of the ruling coalition, with senior Nepali Congress leaders Ramchandra Paudel and CPN-Maoist Centre Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal reminding each other of the power their parties wield to cut the other down to size.
Dahal today told newly elected party representatives that if the NC became arrogant, his party would teach it a lesson, not different from the one it taught the CPN-UML not long ago when it became too big for its shoes.
"We had forged alliance with CPN-UML with good intentions, but the leadership of that party became egoistic and arrogant. Now we fear that the NC could also go that way. If the NC thinks that it has cut the CPN-MC to size in local elections and will do so again in parliamentary and provincial elections, then we will have to put the NC in its place as we did the UML," Dahal said. In response, Paudel said NC would keep working for the country whether it won elections or lost.
A version of this article appears in the print on June 02, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
