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Oli and Deuba Stake Claim to the Post of Prime Minister

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 Oli and Deuba Stake Claim to the Post of Prime Minister
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May 21: CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli and main opposition party President Sher Bahadur Deuba have presented their claims at the President’s Office for the post of the prime minister with support from required numbers of the House of Representatives (HoR) members.    
Ruling party chair Oli has presented his claim for new prime minister with support from 153 members of the House of Representatives (HoR) while Nepali Congress (NC) President Deuba presented the claim for the country’s highest executive position with the signatures of 149 HoR members.    
Incumbent Prime Minster Oli has claimed for the prime ministerial berth as per the Article 76(5) of the Constitution of Nepal with support from 153 HoR members including 121 of UML and 32 of Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), his chief advisor Bishnu Rimal informed.

A letter of claim presented to this effect has been signed by Chairperson Mahantha Thakur and parliamentary party leader Rajendra Mahato on behalf of JSP and UML chair and parliamentary party leader Oli.    
On the other hand, Deuba registered his letter of claim with the signatures of 149 HoR members including 61 of NC, 49 of CPN (Maoist Center), 26 of CPN (UML) Madhav Nepal Group, 12 of Janata Samajwadi Party and one of Rastriya Janamorcha Nepal, informed NC chief whip Bal Krishna Khand.    
Deuba registered his claim for the new prime minster at the Office of the President on behalf of the opposition alliance as per the Article 76 (5) of the Constitution. The HoR has a total of 272 members.
It may be noted that President Bidya Devi Bhandari had given the deadline up to 5.00 pm this evening (May 21) for the formation of a new government as per the Article 76 (5) of the Constitution. -- RSS  

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