By Nepal News Correspondent

Kathmandu, Feb 25:

The crisis that had crept into the ruling Nepali Congress has been over as the no-confidence motion registered against the Prime Minster Krishna Prasad Bhattarai by 58 lawmakers of the Nepali Congress was withdrawn Friday evening.

The motion was withdrawn at the emergency meeting of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party today, said Prime Minister’s office.

The move came following an understanding reached between Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and party president Girija Prasad Koirala relating to solution of the present problem. Immediately after the agreement between the two leaders, they issued a joint statement calling NC lawmakers to withdraw the no-trust motion for the unity of the party.

Koirala also personally appealed to the lawmakers to withdraw the motion.

Earlier today, Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and Girija Prasad Koirala had two rounds of talks in which a compromise was made.

However, the details of the compromise reached between the two leaders were not made public.

After the meetings, both Prime Minister Bhattarai and party president Koirala issued a joint statement asking its lawmakers to withdraw the no-trust motion and workers of the party to remain united.

” The tradition of the Nepali Congress is to resolve any kind of problem through consultation and compromise and the present crisis in the party was also solved on the basis of compromise and consensus”, states the joint statement.

58 lawmakers had registered no-trust motion in the Nepali Congress parliamentary party against Prime Minster Bhattarai and demanded change of the leaders of NC parliamentary party.

The leader of the majority party in parliament automatically becomes the Prime Minister.

Nepali Congress is the majority party in parliament.

According to Nepali Congress source, Prime Minister Bhattarai agreed to step down after sometime gracefully. However, the time for his exit was not disclosed.