KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided to take the vote of confidence in the Parliament on 10^th of January.

Dahal, who took the oath of the Prime Minister on 26^th of December, has requested the parliament secretariat, on Monday, to arrange to table the agenda of vote of confidence on the parliament on 10^th January.

“The Prime Minister has sent a letter to include the subject of vote of confidence on the agenda of the Parliament on the 10^th of January,” the spokesperson of the Parliament Secretariat Rojnath Pandey said.

Dahal became the Prime Minister with the support of seven parties in accord with Article 76 of the Constitution. There is a constitutional provision that a person who has become the Prime Minister should take a vote of confidence within one month of swearing in to office.

The first meeting of the new House of Representatives is scheduled to be held on the 9^th of January.

PM Dahal is going to take the vote of confidence one day after the parliament starts.