Nepal’s CPN (Maoist Centre)-led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ on Saturday recalled its Ministers from the Cabinet led by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and directed all its leaders nominated at the CPN-UML Central Committee to make their positions clear within 24 hours, intensifying the rift between the two factions.
Among the Ministers called back are Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa, Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Minister for Water Supply Mani Chandra Thapa, Urban Development Minister Prabhu Shah, Minister for Youth and Sports Dawa Lama Tamang and Minister for Labour Gauri Shankar Chaudhary, the Kathmandu Post reported.
The decision was taken by the standing committee meeting of the CPN-MC held this morning at Paris Danda, the Centre’s party office here.
“Our Standing Committee meeting has decided to call back all our Ministers in the Federal Government and told the leaders nominated by UML to make their position clear within 24 hours,” Devendra Poudel, a Standing Committee member, was quoted as saying.
As per the legal provision, lawmakers will lose their seats in the upper house and the lower house of Parliament if they choose to leave the party or their party decides to expel them from the party.