Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of India on the country's 78th Independence Day.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with Nepalese Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli at the PM Office and Council of Ministers in Kathmandu's Singha Durbar palace on Sunday.
Oli received 188 votes in the 275-member parliament, with 74 votes in opposition and one abstinent, the house speaker announced. On Sunday, a total of 263 lawmakers were present at the meeting. The prime minister required at least 138 votes to win the trust motion.
Nepal's newly appointed Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli, will be taking a vote of confidence on Sunday, a week after taking over the charges of the office.
With the expiration of the deadline to stake the claim for the Prime Minister, Nepal President Ram Chandra Paudel has appointed KP Sharma Oli (72) as the next Prime Minister.
KP Sharma Oli is set to become Nepal's new Prime Minister, on Sunday evening, setting him up for his fourth prime ministerial term. Meanwhile, the Oli's Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and Nepali Congress (NC) coalition are finalising ministerial list ministers
KP Sharma Oli, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) will be staking a claim for the Prime Minister today itself after President Ram Chandra Paudel's call to form a new government.