KATHMANDU: Ruling CPN-UML’s disgruntled Nepal-Khanal faction has finally decided to postpone the en-masse resignation of its lawmakers for the time being.
Senior UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal met Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel and deputy parliamentary party (PP) leader Subash Nembang of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli faction Sunday afternoon.
Poudel and Nemband were sent by PM and UML Chair Oli to talk to the Nepal faction and to convince them to postpone their mass resignation. The leaders of two rival factions met at Singha Durbar.
According to Jiban Ram Shreshtha, a lawmaker belonging to Nepal-Khanal faction, the group has decided not to forward the en-masse resignation of its lawmakers for the time being as Prime Minister KP Oli is likely to fail the floor test Monday after Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) leaders told PM Oli that they could not provide him confidence vote.
Earlier, the disgruntled Nepal-Khanal faction had made the plan to resign en-masse so that the party chairman and PM Oli would be deprived of their support.
Lawmaker Shrestha did not rule out the possibility of mass resignation on Monday.
“We will decide considering the political development by tomorrow,” he said.
More than 20 lawmakers are believed to have signed for the ‘mass resignation.’
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