At Sunday’s meeting of the party, leaders said any political equation that seeks to replace the KP Sharma Oli-led government should create an environment for the fulfillment of the Maoist party’s agendas.
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A letter by party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda mentioning the CPN (MC)’s decision to the effect was handed over to Oli on Tuesday.
Krishna Bahadur Mahara of the Maoist party said the party was pulling all of its ministers out of the coalition and would attempt to form a national government headed by its own party leader.
Oli’s party now holds 175 elected seats in parliament, far less than the 299 needed to win a vote of confidence. “This government has done some good works”.
Dahal said his decision emerged out of the failure to implement an agreement to withdraw civil war cases from Nepal’s courts and offer amnesty to people accused of abuses during the country’s decade-long Maoist insurgency. “We will face the parliament over this issue”.
If Oli government decides to resign, it will pave the way for Prachanda’s return as the Prime Minister, seven years after he quit following the President’s “veto” upsetting his decision to sack Nepal Army chief Rukmangud Katawal.
In the transitional Parliament, the Maoists, the third largest group have only 83 members whereas the main opposition and the largest Party Nepali Congress has 207 members.
The next move, according to legal eagles, is that either the Maoists or Nepali Congress should register a motion of no-confidence against the government, or the Prime Minister himself can register a motion in the House seeking a trust vote.
However, Prime Minister Oli turned his deaf ear towards the top Maoist leader and asserted that he would continue in power till the new election is held in one and a half year’s time.
In a letter addressed to the prime minister, Prachanda referred to the promulgation of new constitution and the past agreements, and said his party was always in favour of forging a national consensus.
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“It has been politically hard to continue support to your government due to lack of implementation of past understandings and accords”, Dahal wrote in the letter.
