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Never-ending Election To A New Prime Minister
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 29, 2010: the 14th round of the election to a new Prime Minister held today has not brought any result. Only one candidate Ram Chandra Poudel has been running for the office of Prime Minister even after 13 defeats in the elections, and has received 96 votes out of 601 votes the parliament has in the today’s election. He needs more than 300 votes to get elected. So, practically, he has been holding the nation hostage and blocking the formation of a new government using the loophole the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 has provided.
Other candidates such as Prachanda of UCPN-Maoist and Jhalanath Khanal of CPN-UML running for Prime Minister have pulled out of the Prime Ministerial race opting for building a consensus on forming a new government, completing the peace process and writing a new constitution.
Quoting ‘The Times of India’, Advocate.com writes that Sunil Babu Pant, the gay MP and leader of the gay rights movement in Nepal, has been a lone voice trying to resolve the ongoing leadership struggle that has put his country on the brink of ruin. Pant is calling for a saner way forward. “The 36-year-old stood at the entrance of parliament, holding two banners,” reported the Times. “'End this drama,' said one while the other urged for a way out of the impasse. ‘We are meeting on Sunday to devise how to storm the rostrum on Monday (at the time of 15th round of voting) and stage a protest against the futile polls,’ Pant told TNN.”
Mr. Poudel is going to make another record of extremes of Nepal. Mr. Poudel is going to set the world record of the man failed in the number of elections held to the office of a Prime minister in Nepal. Currently, Nepal has been holding the records of the shortest man, highest mountain, of the most corrupt nation, and so on.
