NC directs its PA members to vote against Bagmati CM Jamarkattel

MAKWANPUR: Nepali Congress, Bagmati Province has directed its Parliamentary Party in the Province Assembly (PA) to vote against Chief Minister Shalikram Jamarkattel.

A meeting of the NC Bagmati Work Execution Committee held today under the chair of NC Bagmati President Indra Bahadur Baniya instructed the entire PA members from the party to vote against the Chief Minister. They have been asked not to stay neutral in the process of vote of confidence for Jamarkattel.

Bagmati CM Jamarkattel is to seek a vote of confidence on April 1, Monday.

NC Parliamentary Party leader for the Province, Bahadur Singh Lama, has been asked to implement the instruction.

Jamarkattel is required to obtain 56 votes for the vote of confidence. The 110-member PA consists of 37 members from the NC, 27 from the CPN-UML, 21 from the Maoist Center, 13 from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, seven from the CPN (Unified Socialist), three from Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party and two from the Hamro Nepali Party.