Nepali Congress (NC) Speaker Prakash Sharan Mahat has said that the big party should support Prime Minister (PM) Pushpa Kamal Dahal for five years if the CPN (Maoist Center) votes for the NC candidate in the elections. presidential.
Speaking to the Nepal News Agency, Mahat has stressed that the NC must extend the confidence vote for Prime Minister Dahal for five years if the Maoist Center supports the NC candidate in the presidential election.
He has argued that the NC candidate would be the obvious choice for president in the current situation. He also claimed that NC voted for Prime Minister Dahal during the floor test to protect the Constitution, adding that the national consensus for president is the best possible option. He has urged all the constitutionalist forces to vote for the NC candidate when the CPN-UML is not ready for the national consensus to give the NC the presidency.
Pointing out that President Bidya Devi Bhandari has repeatedly violated the Constitution, he has argued that the NC candidate should be elected president to ensure there is no repeat, implying that another UML president can continue what the president has been doing. Bhandari.
Mahat’s comments came as the Maoist Center seems increasingly willing to support NC in the presidential election.
Dahal resigned from the coalition with NC and Unified Socialist on December 25, 2022 and became Prime Minister (PM) with the support of CPN-UML, Rastriya Swatantra Party, RPP, Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), Janamat Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party after the Nepal Congress. (NC) Sher Bahadur Deuba refused to name him prime minister.
UML has been saying the party should get the post of president as per the power-sharing deal reached with Dahal at the time of forming the government, while Prime Minister Dahal has been talking about the national consensus for president ever since NC voted for his government during the session. proof.
Dahal has been flirting with Deuba since the plenum test and Maoist sources claim that the party will make the decision to support the NC candidate during the presidential elections.
Some Maoist leaders feel that UML candidates like Subash Chandra Nembang and Ashta Laxmi Shakya can be accepted for president. But most Maoist Center leaders spoke out against voting for the UML candidate in the presidential election during the party’s standing committee meeting in late January.
Multiple sources claim that top North Carolina and Maoist leaders have already agreed on the presidential election and there is unanimity in North Carolina to reach a formal agreement with the Maoist Center for the presidential election.
