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Finally Khanal Resins From The Office Of Prime Minister
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 15, 2011: Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal has resigned from the office of prime minister yesterday under the heavy pressure of his colleagues rather than from the pressure of the opposition NC lawmakers that have held the House hostage for two weeks demanding his resignation.
Mr. Khanal has been the most impotent prime minister, as he could not do anything during his six-month stay in office. He has advocated for a consensus government holding the election to a prime minister hostage for eight months after his predecessor left the office but he took the office with the support of UCPN-Maoist reaching a seven-point deal with Chairman of UCPN-Maoist. Thus, he has shown the worst possible political character.
Even after taking the office, Mr. Khanal has continued to advocate a consensus government and signed off a five-point deal with other two major political parties such as UCPN-Maoist and NC agreeing to quit the office for a consensus government. However, Mr. Khanal has stayed on in the office provoking the NC lawmakers to hold the House hostage demanding his resignation.
Forcing the poor Khanal to quit the office, the political leaders have created a political vacuum. None of the political parties has a majority in the parliament to form a single-party government. UCPN-Maoist leaders can form a new government in alliance with any other three political parties such as NC, CPN-UML and UDMF. However, the other three parties need to come together to form a new government without the UCPN-Maoist.
No matter which political party s/he belongs to, s/he talks about the need for a consensus government but none has either been able to build a consensus on a new government or wants to do so. What s/he really wants a ministerial position how short the time for her/him would be in the office.
Mr. Khanal has deliberately or coincidently has quit the office on the day of ‘gai-jatra’ means a messy festival held in most of the main urban centers in Nepal on Sunday, August 14, 2011. So, Mr. Khanal’s departure from the office of prime minister would create another political ‘gai-jatra’ means mess in the country. The main actors in the messy political drama will be Dr. Baburam Bhattarai of UCPN-Maoist and Sher Bahadur Deuba of NC. Dr. Bhattarai has already smartly acquired the approval of his party to be a next prime minister but another contender for a prime minister, and senior leader of NC Mr. Dueba has been maneuvering the political game in his party to claim the office of prime minister. According to the media reports, Mr. Deuba is preparing to table a no-confidence vote against the NC parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Poudel. Mr. Poudel has amply demonstrated his incompetence running seventeen rounds of elections to a prime minister for about eight months. So, most of the NC lawmakers nurtured by Deuba will be happy to vote Mr. Poudel out of the office of the NC parliamentary party office and put Dueba in his place.
