Kathmandu, Feb. 20:Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai has demanded that the party defer tomorrow’s parliamenty party meeting, which came with the breach of “certain agreement” between him and Nepali Congress leaders.

“I request the party to grant me an extended time,” Bhattarai said in a late evening statement, which affirms his preparedness to face the “no confidence” motion moved against him last week by 58 Nepali Congress lawmakers.

“If granted me the time I demand, as per the party statute, I will respond to all charges leveled against me,” Bhattarai said in the emotional statement that came for the first time since the MPs’ abrupt move to censure him.

The Congress lawmakers on last Wednesday demanded Congress Parliamentary party meeting saying they had no trust on Bhattarai who was sworn in as PM on June 1 last year.

“What are my faults and how have I harmed the nation, people and democracy that necessitated the no-trust motion against me, all of a sudden?” Bhattarai wondered in the statement.

Bhattarai criticized the present move by dissident MPs as a sudden breach of “certain agreement between him and other Congress leaders late last year in which we had agreed to have retrospection in the functioning of government and its achievement. “That agreement has been violated unilaterally”, he said. Bhattarai further said that the agreement had been reached late last year following a signature campaign by disgruntled MPs against his leadership.

Bhattarai further said that he had not been apprised of the blames he had been charged with in the petition and said that he must have the time to assess and reply all these allegations of NC lawmakers.

“I must know the blames leveled against me because I must reply to these charges against me by NC legislators,”he said questioning the Parliamentary Party Secretary’s notice, which he said made a mockery of the rights, dignity and the instructions of the parliamentary party leader. The Secretary, Bhattarai said, has issued him a notice that he take part in the parliamentary party meeting within five days.

Bhattarai said that he had been dedicated to the cause of nation, democracy and the party without any craving for returns right from the establishment of Congress. “I alone am alive from among the founding members of Nepali Congress,” Bhattarai said.

“Probably because of this the party projected me as the Prime Minister and received a clear majority in the parliamentary elections last year,” he said.

“Since the time I have been elected the Prime Minister of the nation I have been working tirelessly as per the constitutionto realise good governance, establish a corruption free society leading to nationbuilding.”