Kathmandu:
Nepal’s new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Sunday comfortably won a vote of self-assurance in the House of Representatives, making sure continuity of the twice dissolved reduce property of Parliament for the remaining duration.
Deuba, the 75-year-old chief of the Nepali Congress who was appointed as the prime minister as per the Article 76(5) of the Constitution on July 12 following Supreme Court’s intervention, secured 165 votes in the 275-member property on Sunday.
A total of 136 votes have been essential for Deuba to win Parliament’s self-assurance.
As lots of as 249 lawmakers participated in the voting procedure and 83 of them voted against Deuba although one lawmaker remained neutral.
“I hereby declare that the motion of the vote of confidence tabled by Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has been endorsed with a majority,” House Speaker Agni Sapkota announced.
The proposal for the vote of trust was registered in the Parliament Secretariat on Sunday, the pretty initially day of the session of the reinstated reduce property.
Previously, Deuba has served as the prime minister on 4 occasions initially from 1995 to 1997, then from 2001 to 2002, once more from 2004 to 2005, and from 2017 to 2018.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Deuba on his achievement.
“Congratulations Prime Minister @DeubaSherbdr and best wishes for a successful tenure. I look forward to working with you to further enhance our unique partnership in all sectors, and strengthen our deep-rooted people-to-people ties,” PM Modi tweeted.
Congratulations Prime Minister @DeubaSherbdr and greatest wishes for a effective tenure. I look forward to working with you to additional boost our distinctive partnership in all sectors, and strengthen our deep-rooted folks-to-folks ties.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 18, 2021
Deuba took the oath of workplace and secrecy for a record fifth time on July 13, a day right after a 5-member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives for the second time in 5 months.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari had dissolved the reduce property for the second time in 5 months on May 22 at the recommendation of Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and announced snap elections on November 12 and November 19.
Deuba had staked the claim to type the government as per the Article 76(5) with the help of 149 lawmakers but President Bhandari had invalidated the claim, along with that made by Oli saying each claims have been insufficient.
After the top rated court’s intervention, President Bhandari had summoned the meeting of each the Houses of the Parliament on Sunday.
In the reduce property of Parliament, the ruling Nepali Congress (NC) has 61 members although its coalition companion CPN (Maoist Center) has 48 members, excluding Speaker Sapkota.
The principal Opposition CPN-UML, which is Oli’s party, has 121 members in the reduce property, the JSP has 32 members and the other 3 fringe parties have a member every. There is an independent lawmaker as effectively.
The Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Centre and Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal lawmakers voted in favour of Deuba. The Thakur-Mahato faction of the JSP-N also decided to help Deuba at the last minute.
Close to a dozen lawmakers of the UML left the House right after Deuba’s victory was particular. However, the remaining 22 lawmakers, which includes Madhav Kumar Nepal himself, voted for Deuba.
Interestingly, as lots of as 8 lawmakers from the Oli faction voted in Deuba’s favour. All in all, about 30 lawmakers from the opposition party defied the party whip to vote against Deuba.
Former prime minister and senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Jhalanath Khanal, who is undergoing therapy at a hospital in New Delhi, had issued a statement, asking his party”s lawmakers to vote in favour of Deuba.
With his victory, Deuba is set to stay prime minister for a year and a half, till elections are held.
Nepal plunged into a political crisis on December 20 last year right after President Bhandari dissolved the House and announced fresh elections on April 30 and May 10 at the recommendation of Prime Minister Oli, amidst a tussle for energy inside the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
On February 23, the top rated court reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives, in a setback to embattled Prime Minister Oli who was preparing for snap polls.
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