Kathmandu, October 10
With the King’s deadline for naming a new Prime Minister well past, a major political party today urged the monarch to form an interim government and return all executive powers to the new administration.
“The party has urged the King to form an interim government under Article 128(2) of the Constitution and return all executive powers to the new ministry as per the Constitution,” the Nepali Congress said today after a meeting of its Central Working Committee.
Calling upon the King to “rectify” his unconstitutional move of sacking an elected government, the Congress reiterated its demand for reviving the dissolved house as the “only constitutional way” to resolve the present political crisis.
The meeting chaired by party President Girija Prasad Koirala also appealed to King Gyanendra to convene a meeting of all major political parties to
discuss the present crises and take a decision “acceptable to all political parties represented in the dissolved House,” CWC member Ramchandra Poudyal said after the meeting.
It is for the first time in the kingdom’s 12 year
parliamentary history that there is no Prime Minister for a week.
PTI
