Nepal Helped Deuba Return to Power. Now He's Hobbling Cabinet Expansion
WI THOUT F EAR O R F A V O U R Nepal’s largest selling English daily Vol XXIX No. 167 | 8 pages | Rs.5 O O Printed simultaneously in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Bharatpur and Nepalgunj 35.2 C 16.2 C Wednesday, August 04, 2021 | 20-04-2078 Dipayal Jumla Nepal helped Deuba return to power. Now he’s hobbling Cabinet expansion Even three weeks after assuming office, prime minister is unable to expand the Cabinet. Allotment of ministries delayed as UML dissidents who voted for Deuba vacillate. ANIL GIRI went for a floor test in Parliament. KATHMANDU, AUG 3 As many as 14 lawmakers from the Nepal faction of the UML had voted On Tuesday, Sher Bahadur Tamang, a for Deuba, who garnered 165 votes to lawmaker from the main opposition win the House confidence. But Nepal, CPN–UML, took a dig at Prime who has his own axe to grind with Oli, Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, asking has hemmed and hawed, not giving a him to “take a tuition or coaching clear answer to the Congress party class” on how to run the government. that is leading a coalition government “It has been three weeks since the with the support of the Communist new government came into being, but Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and it has yet to get a full shape,” said the Janata Samajbadi Party. Tamang while speaking in the House. The Congress-Maoist alliance has “The five-time prime minister has yet made offered Nepal faction supporters to expand his Cabinet. Does he need a to join the government, but the dissi- coaching class from us?” dents in the UML are trying to strike a Tamang’s jibe at Deuba is something deal with Oli.
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