Oli, Dahal explore fresh alignment amid election setbacks and probes

Battered by election losses and spooked by government asset probes, Nepal’s top communist rivals look set to share a stage and possibly a future.

KP Sharma Oli, chairman of CPN-UML, and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, coordinator of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP), are moving closer to a renewed political alignment. Insiders say the two leaders have been in active dialogue in recent weeks to map out possible cooperation.