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By Our Reporter

After losing power a month ago, chairman of the Maoist Centre Pushpa Kamal Dahal now looks like a fish out of water. He has become so restless that he often targets the government, especially Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli whenever the government takes a decision. Recently, when the government decided to lift the ban imposed on TikTok, he issued a statement explaining why his government banned TikTok, hinting that the Oli government decided to lift it for some unlawful gains.

Interestingly, Dahal often makes harsh criticism of PM Oli while he looks soft at Nepali Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba, probably with the hope that Deuba will soon get fed up with Oli and ask for his support to form the new government sooner or later.

On Tuesday, he accused the government of working for some interest groups.  In his address to the House of Representatives, Dahal heavily criticised the government. He also argued that the alliance between the UML and NC was going to end soon. His speech affected the share market which plunged on Tuesday. Dahal’s speech prompted Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba to call a meeting of the party’s office bearers and sent a message that there had been no problems in continuing the alliance.

Even CPN-UML general secretary Shankar Pokharel on Monday argued that Dahal was expecting to return to power in six months and until he expects such, it would be difficult to convince him on the agenda of constitution amendment. Speaking at a function in Kathmandu, Pokharel, however, said that Dahal’s expectations could not be realised.

Dahal is also working to consolidate his power by trying to unify the smaller parties. He is in haste to unify at least four parties—Biplav-led Nepal Communist Party, Mahendra Raya Yadav-led Samajwadi party and Madhav Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist) and his party Maoist Centre. However, Madhav Nepal is not willing to unify his party with the Maoist Centre.

At the same time, Dahal is busy clarifying to the party leaders that his party is not splitting. When he was Prime Minister a month ago, he said that there was a risk of split in his party. Then he made this remark targeting Janardan Sharma. Now when Dahal lost power, Sharma raised the issue and exerted pressure on Dahal to quit party leadership. Had he been in power, he could have suppressed the dissenting voice in the party, but after losing power, he somewhat looks defensive and has been clarifying that there was no risk of split in the party. Therefore, Dahal is applying every measure to regain the power he lost a month ago.