World News | Nepal’s top leader urges PM Prachanda to vote for another vote of confidence

KATHMANDU, May 6 (PTI) Nepal’s top political leader said on Saturday that Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda” needs to be in the country after a party in the ruling coalition withdrew its support for the government. The House of Representatives again seeks a vote of confidence.

CPN-Maist Centre’s chief whip Hitraj Pandey said the decision was taken at a meeting of the ruling coalition’s top leaders at the prime minister’s residence in Baluwatar.

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The meeting was attended by the top leaders of the five-party coalition, including Prime Minister Prachanda, Chairman of the Nepal Congress Sherbahadur Deupa, Chairman of the United Socialist Party of the Communist Party of Nepal Madhav Kumar and Chairman of the People’s Party Upendraya Duff.

Pandey told the Press Trust of India that even after Ravi Ramehan’s Rasteria Swatantra party withdrew its support for the government, the Prachanda-led government was outnumbered in the 275-member parliament. There is still a majority in the House of Representatives (HoR).

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Therefore, the prime minister needs to seek another vote of confidence in the HoR, he added.

The Rasterias Vatantra Party (RSP), which won two of the three seats in the recently concluded by-election, withdrew on Friday after failing to reach a power-sharing deal with Prime Minister Prachanda. support for the government.

RSP alleged that Prachanda’s government had failed to tackle corruption. The RSP is the fourth largest party in Nepal’s parliament, with 22 members in the lower house.

Although the RSP, which was involved in the Prachanda-led government formed last December, left the government in February, it has not withdrawn its support “for the sake of stability”.

Prachanda, who was appointed prime minister last December, conducted his first confidence votes in January and March.

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