PM KP Oli to Face No-Confidence Motion Tabled in Nepal Parliament

The motion was filed after 183 Nepali Congress members, 70 from Communist Party put their signatures for the motion

Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prashad Oli (left) at his office at Singha Durbar, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12 October 2015. (Photo: IANS)

• Nepal Parliament is set to vote on a no-confidence motion against the under fire Nepal Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli, on Thursday.
  
  
• Nepali opposition lawmakers earlier in the month had tabled a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister KP Oli after the embattled leader refused to resign, despite the nine-month-old coalition government being reduced to a minority after the withdrawal of support by the Nepal (Maoist-Centre) party.
  
  
• The motion filed on 13 July was filed after 183 Nepali Congress parliamentarians, 70 from Maoist and three of CPN-United put their signatures on the No-Confidence motion in the 601-member Constituent Assembly.
  
  
• The impasse was reportedly reached after PM Oli backtracked on a verbal agreement he had reached with the Maoist chief in May to hand over leadership of the government to the latter after the Parliament’s endorsing of the new budget.
  

(With agency Inputs)