KATHMANDU, 9 March, 2021 (TON): As Nepal’s Supreme Court invalidated the 2018 party merger between CPN-UML (Nepal Communist Party-UML and Communist Party of Nepal Maoist Centre); a day after the ruling party has fallen apart politically and technically.

On3 March, Nepal’s Supreme Court quashed the unification of the erstwhile Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) led by Prime Minister K  Sharma Oli and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda.

On Sunday, the Supreme Court affected the split along the CPN-UML and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and took them to the pre-unification stage which will ultimately make Prime Minister Oli a bit stronger because he was elected to the post from CPN-UML.

But Monday's party split came to a setback to Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda who used to be the Chairman of CPN-Maoist Center.

"We have decided to honor the Supreme Court's decision and are going to return the UML," Nepal said, adding "but our struggle will continue for democracy and communism".

Oli now had been sharing very rough ties with Prachanda, Nepal, and Khanal, as they were raising voices against Oli's way of ruling the government and leading the party.

Then those dissatisfied with Oli inside the ruling party that had 64 percent support, started organizing under Prachanda's leadership but Oli kept on sidelining them.

Prachanda and his faction demanded Oli's resignation but Oli kept on denying and affirmed that he was mandated to rule the country and party both.

With new political situations emerging, parties are in talks to form a new government by removing Oli but the roadmap is yet to be decided upon.

However, reports said that with the Supreme Court's ruling, top UML leaders who used to side with Prachanda against Oli started returning to the mother party from Monday evening itself.