Nepal, April 6 -- Over the years the CPN-UML and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have been partners in different governments. Kamal Thapa, chairman of then RPP-Nepal (now RPP) was deputy prime minister in the first government of KP Sharma Oli, the UML chairperson, in 2015.

The two parties had forged an alliance in 2022 general elections in some constituencies including the one where Oli and Rajendra Lingden, the RPP chair, were candidates. Both of them won.

The rightist party joined the Pushpa Kamal Dahal government formed after the elections in a coalition backed by the UML. Lingden became a deputy prime minister. His party got two other ministries.

Along with the UML, the party also withdrew from the government after the CPN (Ma...