By Nepal News Correspondent

Kathmandu, Feb 22:

His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev accepted the resignation submitted by five Ministers, 3 Ministers of State and 3 assistant Ministers.

According to Principal Press Secretariat of His Majesty the King, the resignations of eleven ministers were submitted to His Majesty the King through Prime Minister Monday.

The names of ministers who resigned 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

They had resigned February 16 following the registration of a no-confidence motion by 58 lawmakers of ruling Nepali Congress against Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.

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 Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, leader of parliamentary board of the majority party in parliament automatically becomes the Prime Minister.

If NC parliamentary party changes its leader, Bhattarai would automatically lose his job as Prime Minister.

The meeting of the NC parliamentary party has been called on February 26 to decide the fate of Prime Minister.