Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba secured a cushty majority within the House of Representatives on Sunday, Together with his Nepali Congress being joined by most other parties — including a neighborhood of the most Opposition Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) — in supporting the vote of confidence Tabled within the House on the primary day that it convened after it had been reinstated by the Supreme Court.
A total of 165 members voted in support of Deuba, with just 83, mostly loyalists of CPN-UML chairman and outgoing Prime minister K P Sharma Oli, casting their votes against.
The vote came after hours of debate, which saw a series of allegations and counter-allegations. The CPN-UML Maintained that Oli was right to dissolve the House and call new elections, and criticised the Supreme Court judgment. But Dueba’s supporters, including senior leaders from multiple parties, accused Oli of being dictatorial in having twice Dissolved the House. Oli was also criticised for what opponents say was an excessive use of ordinances.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre, said Oli was an “autocrat” And someone who did not act as per the spirit of the social process and therefore the Constitution. He accused President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Oli of systematically going against the Constitution. “Bhandari didn’t act fairly and As per the letter and spirit of the Constitution when she denied Deuba the proper to be invited to make the govt after He had submitted support of 149 members of the House… on May 22.”
“I had told her that we are ready for physical verification, and hoped that she would refer it to the House to formally Elect him because the prime minister,” Prachanda said. He added that Bhandari chose to dismiss the House on Oli’s Recommendation and appointed an equivalent one that had lost the mandate because the prime minister again. Prachanda was pertaining to the very fact that Oli had lost a vote of confidence within the House days before the House was dissolved.
Oli was ousted because the prime minister following a unanimous verdict of a five-member Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court on July 12. The Bench ruled that the dissolved House be reinstated which Deuba be appointed prime inister supported the letter of support that he had submitted to the President.
Deuba was required to hunt a vote of confidence within the House within a month of being appointed prime minister.