Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called an all-party meeting.

According to Surya Thapa, Oli’s press advisor, the meeting will be held at 11am on Tuesday at Baluwatar.

“Prime Minister Oli has called an all-party meeting with political parties represented in Parliament to hold discussions on contemporary national political issues,” Thapa informed via Twitter.

Earlier in May also Oli had called a similar all-party meeting to discuss issues including amendment to the constitution and the government’s response to Covid-19.

The meeting followed the government move of registering a constitution amendment proposal in Parliament to amend Schedule 3 of the constitution to update the political map of Nepal in the national emblem.

Before that, in November last year too Oli had held an all-party meeting on the heels of publication of the new political map of India by the Indian government placing the Kalapani area within its borders.

Nepal had objected to India’s move of depicting the area within Indian borders, saying Kalapani belongs to Nepal.

Tuesday’s all-party meeting has been called at a time when pro-monarchy, pro-Hindu forces are organising rallies to demand scrapping of the federal system.

Over the last few weeks, such forces, who have been carrying out rallies in different parts of the country, held similar demonstrations in Kathmandu twice.

Observers say though such protests are not a major threat to Nepal’s federal system and it is too far-fetched to even think that the country can revert to the monarchy and Hindu state, they are of the view that people’s frustrations against the current regime’s failures could have stoked such demonstrations.

The all-party meeting also comes amid rising tensions in Oli’s Nepal Communist Party where his opponent faction led by chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal has upped the ante against him.

Despite Oli’s objection, the Dahal faction has been pushing ahead with party committee meetings, including one of the Standing Committee on Sunday, which Oli did not attend, in an indication that Oli is gradually sliding into the minority.