By Our Reporter  Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has been unable to expand his Cabinet even three weeks after he assumed office. Earlier, it was expected that Deuba would expand the Cabinet by Monday. However, he did not owe to dispute within the parties as a large number of lawmakers in all five coalition parties are lobbying to get the post of ministers. Again the UML faction led by Madhav Kumar Nepal has not decided yet whether it would join the government because efforts are still underway to maintain unity in the CPN-UML. Likewise, JanataSamajwadi Party-Nepal has also not finalised the names of its leaders to be inducted in the Cabinet. Moreover, disputes among the ruling parties have already started spilling with the Maoist Chairman insisting on the formation of a high-level mechanism to advise the government, but PM Deuba is not ready to form such a mechanism. Instead, a task force led by NC general secretary has been formed to facilitate the government to formulate common programmes, appoint in political and constitutional posts and scarp the appointments made by the earlier government led by KP Sharma Oli of the CPN-UML. It was reported that the Cabinet expansion had been delayed as the task force has not prepared its final report. However, before the task force submits its report, the Cabinet on Tuesday scrapped the Land Commission formed by the Oli-led government and appointed officials in the Teachers Service Commission. When the Prime Minister is unable to form the government, there are piles of problems to be addressed by the government. First, cases of COVID-19 surging and containing it will be the biggest challenge. Likewise, providing COVID-19 vaccines to all people, repairing the Melamchi Drinking Water Project battered by the latest floods, rehabilitating the people displaced by floods, and above all maintaining majority in the House to endorse bills are the major challenges to the government. Again, the government needs to hold local level elections by March next year. UML dispute likely to fuel split With the inability of the second generation leaders of the UML to convince party chairman KP Sharma Oli and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal to hold a one-on-one meeting to sort out the differences and Oli'sobjectionable comments against Nepal, the party is finally on the verge of a split. The leaders representing the dissolved task force had hoped that the two leaders would sit for talks on Tuesday, but they did not. Instead, the Oli-led faction on Monday held a meeting of its standing committee and formed nine departments, decided to convene party statute convention in September and table a statute amendment proposal. However, the meeting was boycotted by Nepal-faction leaders. Oli has been trying to woo other leaders of Nepal-faction leaving only Nepal behind, which is going to be a major cause of the split. Oli has been using harsh words against Nepal after he fell from power. Right from the day he left the Baluwatar residence of the PM and reached his Balkot residence, Oli looks determined to oust Nepal, who led the party for 14 years, from the party. What he said from the balcony of his Balkot residence on July 14 was highly pinching for not only Nepal but for the independent onlookers. Since then, Oli has been using one tactic after another to isolate Nepal from the dissenting group but has not succeeded. If Oli does not become ready to address the demands of the Nepal faction, no one can prevent the party from a major split within a few days. Thakur not to quit JSP for the time being Mahantha Thakur of the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal and four former lawmakers of the Maoist-Centre have suffered the most for supporting KP Sharma Oli and joining his government. Top Bahadur Rayamajhi Prabhu Shah, Lekharaj Bhatta and Gauri Shanakar Chaudhary of the Maoist Centre backed Oli for which they lost the position of lawmakers as well as ministers. Now they have nowhere to go as they are not lawmakers. They filed a case at the Election Commission a few weeks back demanding that the Maoist-Centre be scrapped, but again they filed a writ at the Supreme Court demanding that their position as lawmakers representing the Maoist-Centre should be retained. The situation of senior leader Mahantha Thakur of JSP-N is no different. Many lawmakers who were with him before the fall of Oli-led government have deserted him. His faction lost the official recognition as JSP-N as only 16 of 51 central members supported him. Now he can lose the position in the House if UpendraYadav decides to dismiss him from the party. He has left with only an option of forming a new party, but by doing so he will be losing the position of the lawmaker. As a result, he is not in a position of doing something immediately. He will remain in JSP-N as a lawmaker of the ruling party until UpendraYadav tolerates his presence. MCC on debate again Dispute over the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the USA, which was one of the causes for the division in the Nepal Communist Party led by KP Sharma Oli and the fall of his government has surfaced again. While Bhim Rawal of the UML raised the issue in the House arguing that the MCC was implemented without its endorsement from the parliament. He blamed the Oli-led government for executing the project and warned the new government not to endorse it without amending the objectionable provisions. Moreover, KP Sharma Oli, who utilised his full strength to endorse it during his three-plus years' term, has dramatically announced that his party would oppose the project. Indeed, showing double standards on national issues is an important character of Nepali politicians. And Oli is no exception. He dared to face division in the party while trying to endorse the MCC, but now he is opposing the same. Anyway, MCC will be again the most disputed issue in Nepal.