Pushpa Kamal Dahal

July 12, 2024 10:49 PM

PM Prachanda ousted after losing trust vote

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' lost top executive post after failing to secure a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives today. 194 HoR members voted against his vote of confidence proposal whereas 63 members voted in favour. Similarly, a HoR member stood neutral. A total of 258 HoR members were presented in the meeting on Friday. Following the voting on the confidence motion, Speaker Devraj Ghimire announced that PM Prachanda's vote of confidence proposal was...

Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is addressing a function in Kathmandu, Nepal, on April 2, 2024. (Photo by Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

July 12, 2024 9:25 AM

PM Prachanda to seek vote of confidence for fifth time in Parliament today

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' is seeking a vote of confidence for the fifth time in the House of Representatives on Friday. For PM Prachanda securing a vote of confidence will be challenging, as Nepali Congress has 88 members and CPN-UML has 79 members in the House of Representatives while CPN (Maoist Centre) has 32 members only. Appointed as Prime Minister on December 25, 2022, Prime Minister Prachanda garnered a vote of confidence in the House for the fourth time on May 20 thi...

May 20, 2024 4:27 PM

Amid opposition protests, Nepal PM wins parliamentary vote of confidence

Nepal's prime minister won a parliamentary vote of confidence on Monday amid protests by the opposition demanding a parliamentary probe into allegations that his home minister illegally took money from several companies before he entered politics. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former Maoist rebel chief in the Himalayan nation, formed a coalition cabinet in March with the support of the liberal Communist Unified Marxist-Leninist (UML) party and several smaller parties. A fresh vote of confidence became...

May 17, 2024 11:05 PM

Nepal PM Prachanda to Seek Fourth Vote of Confidence on May 20

Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has written to the Federal Parliament Secretariat to take a vote of confidence from the House of Representatives on May 20. As per Article 100 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal, the PM should table a motion in HoR for the vote of confidence within 30 days if a political party in a coalition government withdraws its support to the Prime Minister. PM Prachanda will seek a vote of confidence after the Upendra Yadav-led Janata Samajwadi Party (JS...