Kathmandu, 28 February: With the change in the power equation, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has fallen into minority in the Constitutional Council. It has become a situation where the opposition party is more represented than the Prime Minister, who presides over. The Constitutional Council-the supreme body that recommends the appointment of officials of the constitutional bodies including the Chief Justice.
The Constitutional Council, chaired by the Prime Minister, consists of the Chief Justice, the Speaker, the Chairman of the National Assembly, the leader of the main opposition party and the Deputy Speaker. The Law Minister joins in the meeting to recommend the Chief Justice.
The CPN-UML has quit the government after parties including Nepali Congress and CPN Maoist Centre agreed to go together in the presidential election, and the leader of UML’s parliamentary party, KP Sharma Oli, is likely to become the leader of the opposition party.
Due to the change in the power equation, KP Sharma Oli will enter the council and since leaders from the UML background have been the speaker and Chairman of the National Assembly in the past, the prime minister will be under pressure in the constitutional council to take up his agenda and implement it.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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