Lilamani Pokharel told ( about Sharma Oli ) : “It’s like Oli’s House dissolution case. I was always confident that the court would not endorse it,”

kathmandupost Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:19:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told ( about Commission ) : “But in the first place, it was the duty of the Election Commission to decide on the matter [back in May 2018],”

kathmandupost Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:19:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Sharma Oli ) : “We had asked the commission to update the party’s decision of removing KP Sharma Oli from the post of chair (on December 22),”

kathmandupost Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:27:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Commission ) : "The Election Commission is an independent body which can itself amend its rules. It sent the amended rules to the relevant government ministry which later sent them to the Prime Minister's Office. But the latter is not interested in printing them in the Nepal gazette,"

thehimalayantimes Monday, February 15, 2021 8:04:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told ( about Kumar Nepal ) : “The motive behind the delay in resolving the legitimacy issue could be freezing the sun as an election symbol and Nepal Communist Party as a political party,”

kathmandupost Monday, February 15, 2021 5:43:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Commission ) : “Even though the Election Commission recognised the party’s 441-member Central Committee, which we had registered at the commission, in its recent decision, it failed to recognise our faction which garnered majority support in that existing Central Committee,”

kathmandupost Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:52:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told : “How would our party be registered for election purposes without settling the dispute regarding which faction legitimately represents the Nepal Communist Party,”

kathmandupost Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:52:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Sharma Oli ) : “After Dahal was made executive chair and before the recent dispute arose, no letter had been sent to the commission because there was no such need,” “Letters sent in the name of Oli regarding ticket distribution for National Assembly elections and by-elections for local governments do not make the faction led by Oli legitimate”

kathmandupost Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:52:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “It’s mandatory for the government to consult the EC before announcing the dates of the polls. We came to know from EC officials that the government did not fulfil this legal obligation,”

thehimalayantimes Monday, January 18, 2021 5:57:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “The provision says that the government ‘should’, not ‘could’, consult with the commission before announcing the election dates,”

kathmandupost Monday, January 18, 2021 5:42:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “We asked the commission why the transfer was approved after the election dates were announced and why the commission failed to stop it despite being a constitutional body,”

kathmandupost Monday, January 18, 2021 5:42:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Sharma Oli ) : “Oli has no political reason to defend his decision to dissolve the Lower House. He has been isolated on the issue. Nobody is defending his decision. That’s why he is using derogatory language against leaders of our faction,”

thehimalayantimes Friday, January 15, 2021 7:34:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “Leaders including Dahal and Nepal asked the Election Commission to halt the ongoing preparations for the elections when the Supreme Court is looking into the case of House dissolution,”

kathmandupost Monday, January 11, 2021 12:57:00 PM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “It became imperative for us to inform the Election Commision about the party’s Standing Committee decision meeting,”

kathmandupost Tuesday, December 22, 2020 5:50:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “I have never seen a bill with a reference of a person as guiding framework. A sovereign country and the government putting a foreigner’s perspective as a framework for its law tabled for discussion in the parliament means there is something seriously wrong. Let alone [letting] go [of] socialism,”

eco-business Monday, August 31, 2020 5:57:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “A committee to deal with those issues was formed but no response was made because of the vested interests of several groups who didn’t wanted those to be addressed,”

eco-business Monday, August 31, 2020 5:57:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel added : “This is not a coalition government and hence the government cannot act unilaterally,”

thehimalayantimes Sunday, June 28, 2020 5:55:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “We can designate border points between Nepal and India, improve the lives of border residents and improve road and other physical infrastructure in the border region,”

thehimalayantimes Sunday, June 28, 2020 5:55:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told ( about Sharma Oli ) : “It’s like Oli’s House dissolution case. I was always confident that the court would not endorse it,”

kathmandupost Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:19:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told ( about Commission ) : “But in the first place, it was the duty of the Election Commission to decide on the matter [back in May 2018],”

kathmandupost Saturday, February 27, 2021 5:19:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Sharma Oli ) : “We had asked the commission to update the party’s decision of removing KP Sharma Oli from the post of chair (on December 22),”

kathmandupost Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:27:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Commission ) : "The Election Commission is an independent body which can itself amend its rules. It sent the amended rules to the relevant government ministry which later sent them to the Prime Minister's Office. But the latter is not interested in printing them in the Nepal gazette,"

thehimalayantimes Monday, February 15, 2021 8:04:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told ( about Kumar Nepal ) : “The motive behind the delay in resolving the legitimacy issue could be freezing the sun as an election symbol and Nepal Communist Party as a political party,”

kathmandupost Monday, February 15, 2021 5:43:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Commission ) : “Even though the Election Commission recognised the party’s 441-member Central Committee, which we had registered at the commission, in its recent decision, it failed to recognise our faction which garnered majority support in that existing Central Committee,”

kathmandupost Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:52:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel told : “How would our party be registered for election purposes without settling the dispute regarding which faction legitimately represents the Nepal Communist Party,”

kathmandupost Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:52:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Sharma Oli ) : “After Dahal was made executive chair and before the recent dispute arose, no letter had been sent to the commission because there was no such need,” “Letters sent in the name of Oli regarding ticket distribution for National Assembly elections and by-elections for local governments do not make the faction led by Oli legitimate”

kathmandupost Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:52:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “It’s mandatory for the government to consult the EC before announcing the dates of the polls. We came to know from EC officials that the government did not fulfil this legal obligation,”

thehimalayantimes Monday, January 18, 2021 5:57:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “The provision says that the government ‘should’, not ‘could’, consult with the commission before announcing the election dates,”

kathmandupost Monday, January 18, 2021 5:42:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “We asked the commission why the transfer was approved after the election dates were announced and why the commission failed to stop it despite being a constitutional body,”

kathmandupost Monday, January 18, 2021 5:42:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said ( about Sharma Oli ) : “Oli has no political reason to defend his decision to dissolve the Lower House. He has been isolated on the issue. Nobody is defending his decision. That’s why he is using derogatory language against leaders of our faction,”

thehimalayantimes Friday, January 15, 2021 7:34:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “Leaders including Dahal and Nepal asked the Election Commission to halt the ongoing preparations for the elections when the Supreme Court is looking into the case of House dissolution,”

kathmandupost Monday, January 11, 2021 12:57:00 PM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “It became imperative for us to inform the Election Commision about the party’s Standing Committee decision meeting,”

kathmandupost Tuesday, December 22, 2020 5:50:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “I have never seen a bill with a reference of a person as guiding framework. A sovereign country and the government putting a foreigner’s perspective as a framework for its law tabled for discussion in the parliament means there is something seriously wrong. Let alone [letting] go [of] socialism,”

eco-business Monday, August 31, 2020 5:57:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “A committee to deal with those issues was formed but no response was made because of the vested interests of several groups who didn’t wanted those to be addressed,”

eco-business Monday, August 31, 2020 5:57:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel added : “This is not a coalition government and hence the government cannot act unilaterally,”

thehimalayantimes Sunday, June 28, 2020 5:55:00 AM EAT

Lilamani Pokharel said : “We can designate border points between Nepal and India, improve the lives of border residents and improve road and other physical infrastructure in the border region,”

thehimalayantimes Sunday, June 28, 2020 5:55:00 AM EAT