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Nepal PM Oli faces no-confidence motion by his own party
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IANS | 05 Mar, 2021
The rival faction of the ruling Nepal Communist Party led by Pushpa
Kamal Dahal aka 'Prachanda' on Friday demanded the resignation of Prime
Minister K.P. Sharma Oli from the post latest by Sunday or get ready to
face a no-confidence motion in the Parliament.
Nepal's ruling
Communist party has politically split into two factions after Prime
Minister Oli dissolved the House on December 20 and announced snap
polls. Later, the Supreme Court overturned Oli's decision on February 24
and instructed the government to summon the House within 13 days of its
verdict.
The two factions led by Oli and Prachanda have been
staking claims to the Nepal Communist Party, with both saying they have a
majority of members in the Central Committee as well as in the
Parliamentary Party.
The infighting between the two factions of
the Nepal Communist Party turned nasty after both sides removed top
leaders from each other's factions, thus splitting the party
politically.
Later on January 24, Prachanda faction ousted Oli as
a general member of the party. On Thursday, the Prachanda faction wrote
to the Parliament Secretariat, urging it not to recognise Oli as the
Parliamentary party leader.
As per the directive of the Supreme Court, the government has summoned the House session for Sunday.
A
Parliamentary party meeting of the Prachanda-led faction on Friday
decided to seek Oli's resignation or face a no-confidence motion,
Prachanda said after the meeting.
"If Oli does not resign from
the post, the coming days will be difficult for him. We demanded his
resignation as soon as the Supreme Court reinstated the House, but he
refused to step down. Today, the majority of the parliamentarians have
elected me as the parliamentary party leader. This means Oli is in
minority in the party. If he does not resign, we will bring the
no-confidence motion against him. We are forced to bring the
no-confidence motion due to Oli's behaviour," said Prachanda.
But
the Prachanda camp does not have the required numbers -- 173 -- to oust
Oli through a no-confidence motion. The faction needs support from
other parties like the Nepali Congress, the primary opposition in the
house.
Nepali Congress has received offer for the post of Prime
Minister from both the Oli and the Prachanda faction, but it has not yet
decided as to whom to support.
The Prachanda-led faction has
already offered the post of Prime Minister to Nepali Congress President
Sher Bahadur Deuba. But Deuba has been insisting that his party will not
support any faction until the ruling party technically splits and
divides into two political outfits.
The parliamentary party
meeting also removed Oli and installed Prachanda as the party's
parliamentary party leader. However, Oli has been claiming that he will
face the Parliament and the no-confidence motion.
Oli lacks the
quorum in the party, Prachanda said in the meeting, adding that they
have majority parliamentarians against Oli in the party.
Both
sides of the NCP, which has 173 lawmakers in the House of
Representatives, are claiming that they have more than 100 lawmakers on
their side.
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