Nepal: Pushpa Kamal Dahal claims the post of PM, meets the President

Kathmandu. Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda wants to become the next Prime Minister of Nepal. He met President Vidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday. During this meeting, Dahal staked his claim on the post of PM and filed an application for the candidature. Prachanda’s party Maoist Center is the third largest party in the Parliament of Nepal. It has severed ties with the ruling coalition. The Maoist center alleged that Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has reneged on his promises.

It is being said that now with the support of Oli-led CPN-UML, Prachanda will become the new Prime Minister of Nepal. In a dramatic development, the opposition CPN-UML and other smaller parties on Sunday agreed to extend their support to CPN-Maoist Center (CPN-MC) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. With this, the way was cleared for Prachanda to become the next Prime Minister of Nepal.

Opposition decided to support Prachanda
A meeting of CPN-UML, CPN-MC, Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and other smaller parties led by former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was held here. In the meeting, all the parties agreed to form the government under the leadership of ‘Prachanda’. CPN-MC general secretary Deb Gurung said that the CPN-UML, CPN-MC and other parties are ready to go to the President’s Office ‘Sheetal Niwas’ and submit their candidature for the post of Prachanda under Article 76(2) of the Constitution with signatures of 165 MPs. Huh. Gurung told that a memorandum of understanding is also being prepared for handing over to the President.

This is the position of the parties in the Parliament
Apart from former Prime Minister Oli, Prachanda, RSP President Ravi Lamichhane, Rashtriya Prajatantra Party chief Rajendra Lingden, Janata Samajwadi Party President Ashok Rai and others participated in the meeting held at Oli’s residence Balakot. An agreement has been reached between Prachanda and Oli to lead the government alternately (on the basis of rotation) and Oli has expressed his consent to make Prachanda the first Prime Minister. The new coalition has the support of 165 members in the 275-member House of Representatives, including 78 from the CPN-UML, 32 from the CPN-MC, 20 from the RSP, 14 from the RPP, 12 from the JSP, six from Janmat and three from the Civil Liberation Party. members are included.

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