KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Oli, who had reached the President’s Office, Sheetal Niwas, has returned after holding talks with President Bidya Devi Bhandari.

PM Oli had reached the President’s Office shortly before the leaders of the opposition parties reached Sheetal Niwas with signatures of 149 lawmakers to ask the President to appoint Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Oli stake claimed for the post of prime minister by submitting signatures of 153 lawmakers as per Article 76 (5) of the Constitution.

According to a source, the Prime Minister had submitted a letter to the President on Thursday night.

According to a lawmaker close to PM Oli, the signatures of the lawmakers of the Janata Samajbadi Party’s Mahantha-Rajendra faction were handed over to the Prime Minister last night.