UML dissidents embrace the ‘awara’ label, launch ‘Awara Campaign’

Leaders pushing for changes in the party turn Oli’s dismissive remark into a satirical campaign, inviting supporters to Chyasal party office for tea.

An unusual tea-drinking campaign is brewing inside the CPN-UML after Chairman KP Sharma Oli used the words ‘ awara ’ and ‘ uranthheula ’ for party leaders and activists calling for changes in policy and leadership. Both of these are derogatory Nepali words—awara, derived from the Persian language, translates roughly to ‘aimless drifter; while uranthheula means immature or frivolous.