By Our Reporter
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has obtained a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives for the fourth time.
He won the vote of confidence on Monday amid obstruction by the main opposition Nepali Congress and other parties. He got 157 votes in the 275-member Lower House. However, only 158 members participated in the voting while others did not.
Dahal showed his majority for the fourth time in 17 months. However, his vote of confidence was mired by obstruction. Except for UML lawmaker Bishnu Paudel, no one spoke on the motion tabled by the PM because of obstruction. Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire had to mobilise marshals to run the House.
After fulfilling the formality of the voting, Speaker Ghimire said that PM Dahal won 157 votes, exceeding the minimum 138 required, in the 275-member parliament in Monday’s voting in which the entire opposition – except one member – did not participate.
“As the number is the majority of all members of parliament, I declare the motion of confidence tabled by the prime minister as passed,” Ghimire told the parliament as the opposition Nepali Congress party protested and shouted slogans. The NC has been obstructing the House demanding a parliamentary probe into Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane’s involvement in cooperative frauds.
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