By Nepal News Correspondent
Kathmandu, Feb 18:
Eleven ministers of the present government headed by Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai resigned today following the registration of a no-confidence motion by 58 lawmakers of ruling Nepali Congress against the Prime Minister.
However, Prime Minister’s office did not confirm it.
They went to Prime Minister’s official residence and handed over their resignation letters to Prime Minister Bhattarai.
However, their resignations have not yet been accepted.
A source said eleven ministers handed over the resignation and walked away without waiting for Prime Minister’s comment.
After submitting resignation to Prime Minister, all seven ministers went to liaison office NC president Girija prasad Koirala at Maharajgung and informed journalists that they quit as they thought that it was not appropriate to stay in government that lost confidence of the majority members of the lawmakers.
The names of ministers who resigned today are:
Minister for Works and Transport Khum Bahadur Khadka
Minister for Water Resources Govinda Raj Joshi
Minister for Law and Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Tarini Dutta Chataut
Minister for Health Dr Ram Baran Yadav
Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Mahanta Thakur
Minister of State for Science and Technology Surendra Chaudhari
Minister of State for Labour Ram Bahadur Gurung
Minister of State for Local Development Mohammad Aftab Alam
Assistant Minister for Commerce Narendra Bikram Nembang
Assistant Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Narayan Singh Pun
Assistant Minister for Land Reforms and Management Surendra Hamal
Fifty eight lawmakers of the ruling Nepali Congress party registered a no-confidence motion against prime Minister Bhattarai and demanded that leader of NC parliamentary party be changed.
Bhattarai is the leader of NC parliamentary party.
According to the Consittution of the Kingdom of Nepal, leader of parliamentary board of the majority party in parliament automatically becomes Prime Minister.
If NC parliamentary party changes its leader, Bhattarai would automatically lose his job as prime minister.