MORANG: Three Province 1 ministers of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda and Madhav Kumar Nepal faction have resigned on Sunday.

Minister for Social Development Jeevan Ghimire, Minister of State for Social Development Jasmaya Gajmer and Minister of State for Industry, Tourism, Forests and Environment Vijay Biswas have tendered their resignations, said Ghimire’s Personal Secretary Tilak Bahadur Basnet.

Province Assembly members of the Dahal-Nepal faction are set to file a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Sherdhan Rai today.

Minister for Economic Affairs and Planning of Province 1 Indra Angbo sacked by Chief Minister Sherdhan Rai had said that he will file a no-confidence motion against the Chief Minister on Sunday.

Talking to media after the Chief Minister dismissed him on Saturday; Angbo had said that the no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Rai would be filed at the Provincial Assembly under his leadership.

CM Rai had sacked Angbo accusing the minister of being active in bringing a no-confidence motion against him.

The Prachanda-Nepal faction had on Friday registered a no-confidence motion against Bagmati Chief Minister Dormani Poudel.

Sources said final preparations were being made to bring a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Rai.

The source claimed that the Prachanda-Nepal faction has a majority in the state assembly.

The NCP has 68 lawmakers out of 93 in the state assembly. Of them, 52 are from erstwhile CPN-UML and 16 are from the then Maoist (Center).