Citing Article 91 of the Constitution, the ruling coalition has planned to present an impeachment resolution in the House of Representatives to remove Deputy Speaker Rana, alleging that she has not fulfilled the duties expected of her role.
The Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) in Nepal, another ally of the government led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda has deserted him ahead of the vote of confidence scheduled for next week.
In a post on Facebook, Pandey wrote, "Government to change today. New cabinet to be formed. Swearing in of small number of ministers to take place today."
The parliamentary and central committee meeting of the Rastriya Swantantra Party (RSP) led by Rabi Lamichhane decided to withdraw the support forcing the Prime Minister to go for another round of floor tests.
"Only the number of ministries and ministers has been decided today (Wednesday). The formal allocation of the Ministry is yet to be ascertained. As per today's decision, the Nepali Congress will get 8, Maoist Center will get 5, Unified Socialist and Janata Samajbadi Party will get 2 each whi
Leading a fragile coalition of 10 parties demanding their share in the cabinet, the Nepal Prime Minister who secured his seat for the second time since getting into power at end of December claimed he will be expanding the cabinet this week.
The decision to change the political course of the Himalayan Nation after the general election of November last year comes ahead of the Presidential election slated for next month.
On Monday evening, the top leaders of the ruling coalition had agreed on ministerial allocations. The meeting of the chiefs of four ruling parties the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN-UML, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), and the Janata Samajbadi Party (J
Dahal who is attempting for a whopping majority in the parliament has been attempting to ensure more votes in his favor and is also trying to woo the opposition to increase
vote in favor.