Political events changed in Nepal, Prime Minister ‘Prachanda’ said ‘I will not resign from the post…’

Political developments in Nepal are changing rapidly. An agreement has been reached between Nepal’s biggest parties Nepali Congress and CPN-UML. Meanwhile, while consensus was being reached to form a new coalition government, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided not to resign from the post. Nepal Communist Party (Maoist Center) Secretary Ganesh Shah told PTI-Bhasha that in a meeting of party officials held in the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday, Prachanda said that he would prefer to face the trust vote in the parliament instead of resigning from the post.

PM decides to seek trust vote

Ganesh Shah said, “Prime Minister Prachanda has decided to face the trust vote.” Prime Minister Prachanda (69) has won the trust vote thrice in Parliament during his one-and-a-half year tenure. This development has happened at a time when Nepal’s two largest parties Nepali Congress and CPN-UML reached an agreement at midnight to form a new ‘national consensus government’ to oust Prime Minister Prachanda from power.

What do the figures say

The largest party in Nepal’s House of Representatives, the Nepali Congress, has 89 seats while the CPN-UML has 78 seats. The combined number of both parties is 167, which is enough for a majority of 138 seats in the 275-member House.

What is the agreement

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Nepal’s Communist Party Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) President and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli signed an agreement on Monday midnight to form a new coalition government. Deuba (78) and Oli (72) have agreed to share the prime minister’s post in turns for the remaining term of Parliament. Meanwhile, sources said that talks between Prime Minister Prachanda and CPN-UML chief Oli to save the existing coalition have failed.