KATHMANDU, April 27: The Supreme Court (SC) has demanded pleading notes in the writ petition filed against National Assembly member Bamdev Gautam.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: National Assembly Member Bamdev Gautam has described CPN-UML Chairman Oli as the 'planner' of the recent political change, which he termed as “the great political quake”, and Prime Minister Dahal as the executor of the plan.

KATHMANDU, August 16: The CPN (Maoist Center) has given approval to Dr Baburam Bhattarai and Bamdev Gautam to contest the November 20 parliamentary elections with the hammer and sickle symbol.

KATHMANDU, July 25: National Assembly member Bamdev Gautam has said that there should be an arrangement where women who want to get naturalized citizenship through marriage should renounce their country's citizenship.

KATHMANDU, June 30: Coordinator of the newly-formed 'CPN National Unity Campaign' Party, Bamdev Gautam has reached Balkot to meet CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli.

KATHMANDU, June 29: Former CPN-UML leader Bamdev Gautam announced a new political party named ‘Nepal Communist Party Ekata Rastriya Abhiyan’.

KATHMANDU, June 28: CPN National Unity Campaign' Party will have multiple executives for a single post.

KATHMANDU, June 28: Former CPN-UML Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam is set to announce a new political party. He is going to announce the political party by organizing a program on Tuesday afternoon.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Bam Dev Gautam, who recently shifted his support and loyalty from the CPN-UML to the newly-formed CPN (Unified Socialist) has not been included in the five-member standing committee of the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led party.

KATHMANDU, March 16: A key leader of the ruling CPN-UML Bamdev Gautam has accused the party’s Chairman KP Sharma Oli of trying to split the party.

KATHMANDU, March 16: Vice chairperson of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) Bamdev Gautam is holding a meeting of the 'National Campaign for Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Unity', which was launched by Gautam a few months ago with the aim to keep the NCP unity intact.

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: Vice President of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Bamdev Gautam, has urged Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign from the post without any further delay.

KATHMANDU, Jan 9: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) vice chair Bamdev Gautam has urged the party leaders to work for the cause of party unity.

KATHMANDU, Jan 7: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice-chairman and member of the National Assembly, Bamdev Gautam, has been nominated as the member of the Sustainable Development and Good Governance Committee.

KATHMANDU, Jan 7: Leader of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Bamdev Gautam, said that he would have resigned from the post (if he were the prime minister) if there were attempts to oust him through a vote of no-confidence.

KATHMANDU, Dec 26: Vice chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Bamdev Gautam reached Khumaltar, Lalitpur to meet the party’s Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal following a split in the party after the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) by the party’s other Chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

KATHMANDU, Nov 21: Vice-chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Bamdev Gautam has said that the party will not split though the party has been facing intraparty rifts in recent days.

KATHMANDU, Nov 11: Supreme Court has denied issuing an interim order on the case relating to the nomination of ruling party NCP Vice-Chairman Bam Dev Gautam to the National Assembly member, on Wednesday. This paves way for Gautam not only to retain his post as a member of the Upper House but also to assume ministerial portfolio.

KATHMANDU, Nov 11: The Supreme Court is conducting a hearing on the case relating to the nomination of ruling party NCP Vice-Chairman Bam Dev Gautam to the National Assembly member, on Wednesday.

Province 5 government has decided to pick Dang as its provincial capital.

The Constitutional Bench led by Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana has begun testing the constitutional ground of the appointment ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam as a member of National Assembly (NA) and his possible appointment as a minister.

KATHMANDU, Sept 30: The Constitutional Bench led by Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana has begun testing the constitutional ground of the appointment ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam as a member of National Assembly (NA) and his possible appointment as a minister.

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: Sajha Party has strongly objected to the appointment of ruling Nepal Communist Party leader Bamdev Gautam as a National Assembly member.

KATHMANDU, Sept 15: The government has decided to recommend the name of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bam Dev Gautam to appoint him as a member of the National Assembly.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: Who will be the new finance minister is a question everyone has started asking after Yubaraj Khatiwada stepped down on Friday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 3: The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has decided to nominate the party's Vice Chairman Bam Dev Gautam as a member of the National Assembly.

KATHMANDU, July 28: Amid deepening row in the party that has pushed it on the verge of split, Vice Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Bam Dev Gautam has floated a 'middle path' solution to resolve the conflict between Prime Minister K P Oli and Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

KATHMANDU, May 7: The Nepal Communist Party’s (NCP) intra-party dispute that seemingly came to an end has surfaced again after Prime Minister and the party's Chairman KP Sharma Oli expressed his unwillingness to convene a meeting of the party's Standing Committee.

KATHMANDU, May 2: A meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat has decided to elect the party's Vice-chairman Bamdev Gautam to the House of Representatives “at an appropriate time”.

KATHMANDU, May 2: Amid growing intra-party rifts, a meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat is taking place this evening.

KATHMANDU, April 30 : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has offered to make the party's senior leader Bam Dev Gautam the new prime minister and Madhav Kumar Nepal the chairman in order to settle the intra-party disputes within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).

KATHMANDU, Feb 29: A majority of ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat members have mounted pressure on Prime Minister KP Oli, who is also chairman of the party, to nominate Bamdev Gautam as an upper house member as decided earlier by the secretariat. Oli is seen to be on the defensive now that his once trusted colleague Bishnu Poudel has also joined the gang of top NCP leaders demanding that Gautam be picked for the upper house.

CHITWAN, Feb 28: Ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has clarified that the Prime Minister and party chair KP Sharma Oli will follow the party secretariat meeting decision of recommending its vice-chair Bamdev Gautam as a member of the National Assembly.

KATHMANDU, Feb 27: Top guns of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) are sharply divided after Prime Minister KP Oli refused to recommend party Vice-chairperson Bamdev Gautam for upper house membership despite a recommendation by the party secretariat meeting on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Feb 26: The rift within the ruling Nepal Communist Party’s (NCP) top leadership has widened, with  Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli rejecting to the party secretariat's proposal to appoint central vice-chairperson Bamdev Gautam the National Assembly member.

KATHMANDU, Feb 26: The ruling Nepal Communist Party on Wednesday decided to nominate its vice-chairman Bamdev Gautam as a member of the National Assembly.

KATHMANDU, Feb 26: Under pressure from all quarters, the ruling Nepal Communist Party is likely to shelve its plan to amend the constitution to empower an upper house member to lead the government in capacity of the prime minister.

REPUBLICA, Feb 24: The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has formed a task force to do its homework for amending the constitution to allow upper house members to become prime minister. The party plans to elect its vice-chairman Bamdev Gautam to the upper house and clear the way for him to become prime minister.

KATHMANDU, Feb 13: Chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday said that the things which used to be considered impossible have turned easy and possible only because of the right principle and leadership.

KATHMANDU, Feb 4: Ahead of the 2017 parliamentary elections, Bamdev Gautam was in the political limelight for his efforts to get the then two communist parties-CPN-UML and UCPN (Maoist)—to merge into one to counter the Nepali Congress.

KATHMANDU, Feb 2: Nepal Communist Party senior leader Bamdev Gautam has now officially become the party's central vice chairperson.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Vice Chairman Bamdev Gautam on Saturday announced that he won't contest the by-election for the parliamentary seat from Kaski.

KATHMANDU, March 3: Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Bamdev Gautam on Saturday denied 'rumors' that he was considering running in a by-election for the parliamentary seat from Kaski which has fallen vacant with the sudden demise of Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation Minister Rabindra Adhikari.

KATHMANDU, Oct 12: Following a rift within the party and a red signal from Prime Minister KP Oli, senior Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Bamdev Gautam has decided to back away from his decision to contest a by-election from Kathmandu-7, according to aides.

KATHMANDU, Oct 10: Nepal Communist Party lawmaker Rambir Manandhar has announced resignation from his parliamentary seat to make way for party senior leader Bamdev Gautam, who has been trying desperately to get back into parliament from any constituency in the country.