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This period also saw downturn in India Nepal relations based on blockade on the movement of goods from India to Nepal due to violence in the bordering areas dominated by the Madhesis.

2015 October - K.P. Sharma Oli becomes the first prime minister to be elected under the new constitution.

2016 February - Government lifts fuel rationing after the ethnic minority Madhesi communities, partially backed by India, end a six-month border blockade in protest over the new constitution which they say is discriminatory.

2016 July - Maoist party pulled out of the governing coalition. Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigns ahead of a no-confidence vote in parliament.

2016 August - Parliament elects former communist rebel leader and Maoist party leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda as prime minister for the second time. In 2016, China and Nepal hold their first ever joint military exercise.

2017 June - Pushpa Kamal Dahal was replaced as prime minister by the Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba under a rotation agreement.