Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari (Credit: Reuters Pictures)
Opposition parties gear up to form new govt in Nepal after PM Oli loses trust vote ANI | Updated: May 11, 2021 00:28 IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 11 (ANI): Major opposition parties of the Nepali parliament have started preparations to form a new government after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli lost the vote of confidence at Lower House on Monday.
A coalition of more than two parties representing in the parliament, who will form Nepal s new government, have already started consultations over the next leadership. Majority of the lawmakers who were present today have rejected the Prime Minister s vote of confidence. The House has decided that KP Sharma Oli shall not remain in the post any longer. In order to make a new government, all the political parties would make attempts and we are confident that the nation would get a new Prime Minister, Bal Krishna Khand, opposition Nepali Cong
Nepal: Opposition parties gear up to form govt
11 May 2021, 05:27 GMT+10
Kathmandu [Nepal], May 11 (ANI): Major opposition parties of the Nepali parliament have started preparations to form a new government after Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli lost the vote of confidence at Lower House on Monday.
A coalition of more than two parties representing in the parliament, who will form Nepal s new government, have already started consultations over the next leadership. Majority of the lawmakers who were present today have rejected the Prime Minister s vote of confidence. The House has decided that KP Sharma Oli shall not remain in the post any longer. In order to make a new government, all the political parties would make attempts and we are confident that the nation would get a new Prime Minister, Bal Krishna Khand, opposition Nepali Congress leader and close aide to NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba told reporters as he exited the parliamentary building.
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On December 19, Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari, acting on the behest of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, dissolved the House of Representatives and announced fresh mid-term elections on April 30 and May 10, putting the nation in a state of near anarchy.
The Nepal Communist Party (NCP), which enjoyed a two-thirds majority government, has splintered into two factions – Oli versus Pushpa Kamal Dahal, more widely known as Prachanda. The two factions have begun their number games to win members.
The two major communist parties, the Unified Marxist-Leninist led by Oli and Maoist Center led by Dahal, had officially teamed up on June 7, 2018, to run the government, raising hopes for some stability in Nepal’s 30 years of democracy. But it did not last.