Kathmandu, Feb. 17: Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party will hold its meeting early next week (February 21) to discuss the problems that arose following the move yesterday by ruling party lawmakers to pressure for change in the leadership.

“All Congress legislators are requested to attend the meeting that day at the Parliamentary Party office to discuss and decide on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai,” NC Parliamentary Party Secretary Benupraj Prasain said in a statement. The meeting will take place at eight o’clock in the morning.

Fifty-eight NC MPs from the House of Representatives on Wednesday registered the motion saying they did not have confidence on their Parliamentary Party leader, Bhattarai.

“The NC Parliamentary Party’s meeting has been called to discuss and decide on the no-trust motion against the Prime Minister registered in accordance with NC Parliamentary Party statute’s article 19 (6) by the NC parliamentary members,” Prasai said in the statement.

According to NC’s parliamentary statute, the removal of the head of the parliamentary party is possible only when the two-third majority of the 113 NC MPs at the House of Representatives and 24 at National Assembley back the no trust-motion.

Reports today said the NC MPs, who have moved the motion, said that the Prime Minister had disregarded the agreement he made with Party President Girija Prasad Koirala late last year when the two sat together to avert a similar crisis in December.

Bhattarai took over as the Prime Ministers in June last year when Nepali Congress obtained majority in the last general elections.