Tussle over Bhattarai

History almost set to repeat itself in Nepal. In October 2002, then-King Gyanendra sacked then-Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba as he sought to defer the scheduled general elections by a year. No party opposed an elected PM’s dismissal when the king cited “incompetence” as the reason for the unprecedented act. Deuba, almost every other party said, was trying to prolong his illegal rule with no accountability as there existed no parliament at that time.

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