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Nepal Helped Deuba Return to Power. Now He's Hobbling Cabinet Expansion WI THOUT F EAR O R F A V O U R Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 167 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 35.2 C 16.2 C Wednesday, August 04, 2021 | 20-04-2078 Dipayal Jumla Nepal helped Deuba return to power. Now he’s hobbling Cabinet expansion Even three weeks after assuming office, prime minister is unable to expand the Cabinet. Allotment of ministries delayed as UML dissidents who voted for Deuba vacillate. ANIL GIRI went for a floor test in Parliament. KATHMANDU, AUG 3 As many as 14 lawmakers from the Nepal faction of the UML had voted On Tuesday, Sher Bahadur Tamang, a for Deuba, who garnered 165 votes to lawmaker from the main opposition win the House confidence. But Nepal, CPN–UML, took a dig at Prime who has his own axe to grind with Oli, Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, asking has hemmed and hawed, not giving a him to “take a tuition or coaching clear answer to the Congress party class” on how to run the government. that is leading a coalition government “It has been three weeks since the with the support of the Communist new government came into being, but Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and it has yet to get a full shape,” said the Janata Samajbadi Party. Tamang while speaking in the House. The Congress-Maoist alliance has “The five-time prime minister has yet made offered Nepal faction supporters to expand his Cabinet. Does he need a to join the government, but the dissi- coaching class from us?” dents in the UML are trying to strike a Tamang’s jibe at Deuba is something deal with Oli. “One day, the Nepal fac- almost everyone is talking about. tion seems positive about joining the Three weeks after taking the oath, government. The next day it expresses Deuba has been unable to expand his its unwillingness,” said the Congress Cabinet, and he’s been running the leader. “This has created confusion POST PHOTO: SANJOG MANANDHAR government with four ministers and about portfolio distribution.” A man jumping into the Bagmati river with clothes on is caught in mid-air in the Pashupati area in Kathmandu on Tuesday afternoon. one minister of state, just as the coun- Besides 14 Nepal faction lawmak- try is in the midst of a pandemic. ers, eight others from the UML, con- “The reason behind the delay in sidered close to Oli, too had voted for expanding the Cabinet is we have been Deuba, and they are also seen as aspir- EXPLAINED waiting for the Madhav Kumar Nepal ants for some portfolios. While Deuba faction to decide,” said a Nepali has to distribute ministries to coali- Congress leader. “Cabinet expansion tion partners and others who support- is unlikely before Friday.” ed him during the House vote, he also Why is the Delta variant a cause for concern? After the Supreme Court on July 12 needs to take into confidence the fac- ordered that Deuba be appointed tions in his party led by Ram Chandra The highly contagious new variant is rapidly spreading worldwide, fuelling outbreaks, and the threat looms large over Nepal. prime minister, ousting KP Sharma Poudel and Krishna Prasad Sitaula. Oli, the Congress leader on July 18 >> Continued on page 2 ARJUN POUDEL The two-month-long strict prohibi- Consequences. The UN health agency KATHMANDU, AUG 3 tory orders imposed from April 29 had classifies a variant as a VOC when it is been crucial in containing the spread associated with an increase in trans- Last week, the World Health after the second wave slid into a devas- missibility or detrimental change in Organisation said that the Delta vari- tating crisis, killing around 6,000 peo- Covid-19 epidemiology; increase in ant is a warning that SARS-CoV-2, the ple in just nine weeks from April 24 to virulence; or decrease in the effective- virus that causes Covid-19, is getting June 30. With prohibitory orders lift- ness of public health measures or “fitter and faster”. This comes as a ed, people’s mobility has increased. available diagnostics, vaccines, and major concern for Nepal where cases Since members of the public are not therapeutics. have shot up over the past few weeks, following basic safety protocols, a The B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), with intensive care unit beds filling massive surge in cases cannot be ruled B.1.617.2 (Delta), and P.1 (Gamma) var- up fast. As the number of infections out, doctors say. The Delta variant, iants are classified as variants of con- rises in Kathmandu Valley, the most which is already circulating in the cern. No variant of high consequenc- densely populated area in the country, country, can make matters worse. es has been identified as yet. doctors say health facilities could be Here is everything you need to overwhelmed soon. know about the Delta variant and Is the Delta variant circulating in Nepal’s Covid-19 status. Nepal? What is the Delta variant? The Health Ministry last week said Delta variant (B.1.617.2) was con- The Delta variant is a highly firmed in 47 swab samples of the contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus infected persons collected between strain. It was first identified in early June and mid-July. India in December. The World The samples were sent to the World Health Organisation has called it Health Organisation-identified Centre a variant of concern (VOC). So for Excellence in Genomics, the far, scientists have named three Institute of Genomics and Integrative classes of SARS-CoV-2 variants: Biology in New Delhi, for whole-ge- Variant of Interest, Variant of nome sequencing. Concern and Variant of High >> Continued on page 2 Paras Khadka, the face of Nepali cricket, announces his international retirement Fellow players say the former captain, 33, could have played for a couple of years more. He says he has no energy to play but wants to be the game’s administrator. short period. Apart from Nepal, Nepal until we played the 2014 T20 Afghanistan is the only other country World Cup. The game’s popularity to climb up the rungs of the rose massively when Nepal played the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup in Bangladesh,” said ladder in such a short time. Poudel. “As the team leader, he deserved It was the golden generation of PRAJWAL OLI most of the credit for Nepal’s winning Nepali cricket that Khadka played KATHMANDU, AUG 3 outcomes,” Jagat Tamata, Nepal’s for- with. Among his contemporaries, only mer coach, told the Post. “Besides that captain Gyanendra Malla, who suc- Paras Khadka, the ability to motivate his team and the ceeded Khadka, face of Nepali cricket, ability to make the right decision at Sharad Vesawkar, has retired from interna- the right time, luck also played Basanta Regmi and tional cricket. its part in his becoming the Binod Bhandari Khadka first represented most decorated cricketer remain in the team. Nepal in the Asian Cricket of the country.” >> Continued on page 7 Council U-15 tournament in 2002 Bimal Paudel, and made his debut for Nepal’s sen- ior team in 2004 in the Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia. He also captained Nepal from 2009 a found- to 2019. ing member of “With utmost clarity, respect and Nepali Cricket gratitude, I have now decided to retire Supporters Society and myself from playing international ardent fan of the sport, believes cricket,” the 33-year-old cricketer that the success Nepali cricket wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. achieved in a short period under Khadka, an all-rounder, led Team Khadka’s leadership sets him apart Nepal’s elevation from a Division 5 from the players Nepal has produced. team, the lowest tier of international Khadka led Nepal in qualifying for cricket, in 2010 to its status as an the 2014 T20 World Cup, the first time one-day international (ODI) nation, Nepal faced the world’s cricketing photo the highest tier, in 2018—a rare heavyweights in an ICC event. FILE ost achievement for any country in such a “Cricket was not very popular in P C M Y K WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 04, 2021 | 02 NATIONAL Why is the Delta variant ... >> Continued from page 1 preventing serious disease and deaths. The Health Ministry urged all to The UN health agency last week exercise caution, saying the Delta var- reiterated that vaccinated people can iant was circulating in the country get infected and transmit the Delta and that a new sub-lineage of it— variant, the likelihood of which is K417N, also known as AY.1 was con- reduced after administration of the firmed in three of them. The sub-line- second dose and full effectiveness is age is called Delta Plus. achieved. “Studies have shown these variants are more infectious and could affect What measures have been taken by people of all age groups,” the ministry authorities to prevent the spread of said in the statement. the Delta variant? Earlier in June also the ministry said Delta Plus was found in swab No measures have been taken to pre- samples. vent the spread of the Delta variant of According to the ministry, of the 48 the virus by the authorities concerned swab samples of infected people, on despite knowing that the virus is more which whole-genome sequencing was contagious and lethal than the one performed, the Delta variant of the seen in Wuhan of China. Authorities virus was detected in swab samples of have removed the restrictions 47 people.
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