21 Congress MPs have signed to remove Chief Minister Bahadur Singh Lama (Tamang), who is also the leader of the Bagmati Province Congress Parliamentary Party. Before that, four ministers in the government had resigned. Lama, who was elected as the leader of the provincial parliamentary party from the election, has challenged that he will not resign but will face a motion of no confidence.

In this context, Kulchandra Neupane of Kantipur had a brief conversation with him. MPs of your own party have signed to remove you from the leader of the parliamentary party. When will your resignation come?

Why resign? I will not resign. He did not talk about resigning. I am working. I was elected the leader of the party through the election. And why resign? What is being done against me now is a disease. This will later lead to instability in other provinces.

A year between you and Indra Bahadur Baniyan  There was an agreement to be the Chief Minister, it is being said that you did not agree to the party chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba's request to resign according to that?

that is not true. No one told me to leave. It is not agreed that he will be the Chief Minister for one year. If there was an agreement, why would the elections be held in parliamentary party elections? It would have been agreed! I became the leader of the party after being elected. So there is no escape. I will face a motion of no confidence in the leader of the party. I am not a person who runs away. After the departure of the party leader, I will continue to be the Chief Minister until another decision is taken by the coalition. There is no need to resign from party leader and chief minister.

Isn't the effect of growing dissatisfaction within the party seen in Bagmati? I don't know about

. I have worked in the province. Now it has started in Bagmati. If the leaders of the party work to support it, this disease will spread to other provinces and start at the center as well. I was elected as the leader of the parliamentary party for five years. If it was for one year, there would be no election first. I have already said that we should not hold elections for half-terms. However, he (Indra Bahadur Baniyan) thought that he would win the election. However, I won the election. How can it be said that there was an agreement now? I am a person who has always contested elections. According to law, I am the leader of the party elected for five years. I don't want to leave.

Now in Bagmati, the finance minister brought the budget controversially. It is said that the Chang of Bethiti brought in and this situation has come? No matter how much the

budget is given. What happens after the MP gives the budget? A budget of up to seven/eight crores has been given to one person. No one directly elected has received a budget less than five crore rupees. A budget of 3 crores has been given for proportional MPs. However, no matter how much you give, you cannot make them happy.

Yesterday, you were from the team of the leader of the parliamentary party, Banda Sher Bahadur Deuba. Now the same team is trying to remove you? Which team will you be in now? The

team sometimes happens somewhere, sometimes somewhere else. I am still where I was yesterday. He has always been in favor of Sher Bahadur Dai. He has been supporting me yesterday. I am there till today. However, it is impossible to say what the situation will be tomorrow. Later circumstances and time will tell. Since Sher Bahadur Dai himself will no longer be the chairman, the situation may be different.