The CPN Maoist Centre has on Wednesday chose to file a no confidence motion against the incumbent CPN UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli led government at the Parliament meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
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Nepal’s former rebel Maoists withdrew from the ruling coalition on Tuesday, leaving the government without a majority and threatening to plunge the quake-hit country into a fresh political crisis.
Though his nine-month-old government has been reduced to a minority, Oli has refused to quit and plans to face the no-confidence motion.
Nepal’s Second Constituent Assembly, elected in 2013, presently functions as the country’s parliament after approving the new Constitution on September 20 past year.
Congress is due to make a decision on supporting the Maoists, party officials said.
The Maoists had withdrawn their support from the Oli-led government yesterday, charging the Prime Minister’s party failed to implement the past agreements, including gentlemen’s agreement to hand over the leadership to them, made with them in the past.
Commentator Lok Raj Baral said the Maoists’ move could force a no-confidence vote and end Oli’s term in office.
“I suspect these two parties have already made a deal, but we will need to wait and see how Oli and the UML respond”, he told Reuters, referring to the Maoists and the Congress.
Prachanda said the party decision has been conveyed to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Prime Minister Oli and Pratinidhi Sabha (lower house of the Nepali Parliament) Speaker Onsari Gharti.
The relationship deteriorated significantly after Nepal adopted its first post-monarchy Constitution a year ago, which was opposed by its ethnic and linguistic minorities who include the Madhesis – a term for several communities living in Nepal’s central and eastern plains who have close cultural and family ties to India. Its passing looked like a rare moment of political consensus but protests soon followed. There are about four dozen lawmakers in the Federal Alliance.
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More than 50 people were killed in clashes before protesters called off the blockade in February.
