Mahendranagar (Dhanusha), June 5:
Madhesh Province's Chief Minister Saroj Kumar Yadav is scheduled to seek a vote
of confidence today in Province Assembly meeting for the fifth time.
With the change in the coalition in
federal government, CM Yadav is gearing up to garner vote of confidence for the
fifth times in the last 18 months.
The situation to seek a vote of
confidence yet again for CM Yadav surfaced after coalition partners CPN (UML),
CPN (Maoist Centre) and CPN (Unified Socialist) withdrew their support lent to
the CM and left the government.
The constitutional provision
mandates that the CM should seek a vote of confidence within 30 days after any
party supporting the government withdraws its support.
CM Yadav, who is also the parliamentary
party leader of the Janata Samajwadi Party, is scheduled to seek a motion of
trust at 3:00 pm, according to the Province Assembly Secretariat.
The CM commanded the support of the
Nepali Congress (NC), Lokatantrik Samajwadi Party Nepal, CPN (Maoist Centre),
CPN (Unified Socialist), Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Nepal Sanghiya Samajwadi
Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party.
NC parliamentary party leader and
NC Madhesh Province's President Krishna Prasad Yadav told Rastriya Samachar
Samiti (RSS) that the NC, which was in opposition role earlier, has decided to
give CM Yadav a vote of confidence. (RSS)