Nepal plunged into a fresh political turmoil as embattled Prime Minister K P Oli resigned today ahead of a no-confidence vote. Oli, who became prime minister in October last year has been facing a no-trust motion after the Maoists withdrew support from the coalition government.
Oli tendered his resignation after two key ruling alliance partners — Madhesi People’s Rights Forum-Democratic and Rastriya Prajatantra Party — decided to support the no-confidence motion tabled against him by the Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN-Maoist Centre led by Prachanda.
Addressing the Parliament on the no-confidence motion, Oli called the change in the government at this time as mysterious and said, he was punished for doing good work. Oli said, Nepal-India relations was all-time low during the time he assumed power last year. He claimed that with his efforts the relations were normalised. Oli said, the relations between Nepal and China and the relations between Nepal and India are unique which cannot be compared with one another and claimed that his efforts have reduced Nepal’s economic dependency on a single country.