Communist Party leader in Nepal takes over as the country's prime minister
THE leader of Nepal’s largest communist party was inaugurated as prime minister at a ceremony in Kathmandu yesterday.
Khadga Prasad Oli, who heads the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), was named for the post on Sunday, following the collapse of a previous coalition government.
The new government is a coalition of Mr Oli’s party with the Nepali Congress. The two parties are the largest in Nepal.
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