INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, JULY 5The Ashok Kumar Rai-led Janata Samajwadi Party has withdrawn its support for Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal's government.
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According to a press statement issued by the Janata Samajwadi Party, the party's meeting on
Friday decided to withdraw its support for Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's government, effective from today
The Janata Samajwadi Party has already sent a letter to the Federal Parliament Secretariat informing it that it has withdrawn its support
for the government, according to the party's General Secretary, Mohammad Istiaq Rai.Nawal Kishore Sah 'Sudi' of the Janata Samajwadi Party
was the Minister of Forests, Pradeep Yadav was the Minister of Health, and Hasina Khan was the Minister of State for Health in the Federal
Government.
Pradeep Yadav, minister from Janata Samajwadi Part, submitting
their resignations to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, in Kathmandu, on Friday
Photo: THT
A month ago, when JSP-N president Upendra Yadav was in the United States for the 57th session of the
Commission on Population and Development, his colleague Ashok Rai rebelled with seven legislators and 31 central committee members to form
the Janata Samajwadi Party, removing the word Nepal from the previous party's registration with the Election Commission.The CPN-MC-led
government has fallen into minority after the largest coalition partner, the CPN-UML, changed its mind and agreed to form a national
consensus government with the Nepali Congress, the largest political party in the legislature.However, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP)
has decided not to recall ministers immediately, despite earlier announcements that they would leave the government
RSP ministers returned without submitting their resignations from the Prime Minister's official residence in Baluwatar on
Thursday.Meanwhile, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal plans to seek a vote of confidence from the House of Representatives (HoR) on July
12.PM Dahal has written to the Federal Parliament Secretariat, requesting that a vote of confidence be included on the agenda for that day's
parliamentary session.Article 100(2) of the Nepalese Constitution states that if a political party in a coalition government withdraws its
support for the Prime Minister, the PM must file a motion for a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives within 30 days.This is
the fifth time that PM Dahal is seeking the vote of trust, which he is certainly going to lose unless he gets any strong political support
as the two largest parties in the Lower House-Nepali Congress and CPN-UML- entered a pact seeking to form a new coalition government,
injecting as many as party as possible.On July 1, the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML agreed to form a new power alliance and establish a
new national consensus government, with the two parties taking turns leading the government and continuing the constitutional reform process
Following this agreement, the NC and CPN-UML urged the PM to resign, paving the way for the formation of a new national government.However,
PM Dahal refused to resign and chose to face Parliament and seek a vote of confidence from the HoR, invoking his constitutional rights.In
response, the CPN-UML withdrew their support for the coalition government, and CPN-UML ministers resigned en masse on July 3.In parliament,
the Nepali Congress has 88 members, the CPN-UML has 79, and the Prime Minister's CPN-MC, the House's third-largest party, has only 32
The Rastriya Swatantra Party, led by Rabi Lamichhane, has 21 members
However, the Dahal government has lost support from the coalition's largest party, resulting in a minority position
A majority requires 138 votes in the House of Representatives, which has 275 members.
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