Butwal/surkhet, Aug. 23 -- Internal disputes within the Nepali Communist Party over the distribution of ministerial posts have delayed cabinet expansion in Lumbini and Karnali provinces, leaving both governments struggling to get fully operational.

In Lumbini, dissatisfaction has emerged among lawmakers from the former Nagarik Unmukti Party and CPN (Unified Socialist), now part of the Nepali Communist Party, after the NCP recommended three former Maoist leaders for ministerial positions.

The three lawmakers from the former Nagarik Unmukti Party and one from the former CPN (Unified Socialist) joined the NCP after the parties merged. They now say they were used only to secure the chief minister's vote of confidence and have threatened to ...