Nepal, July 24 -- Prime Minister Balendra Shah's government that was elected four months ago, riding a wave on the Discord platform is now itself ridden with discord.

The Prime Minister, his small inner coterie of advisers and a Parliament in which his RSP has a near supermajority seem to be pulling in three different directions.

Nepal's public sphere is abuzz with reports of a growing rift between the Prime Minister and his Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle. In budget planning, and in strategy meetings the PM held with business leaders last week, Wagle was conspicuously absent.

RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane is trying to patch things up, and held a retreat at a Kavre resort with Wagle over the weekend which the Prime Minister did not attend....