Mid-term elections or alternative government? The mid-term elections were the right thing to do in the safaris made by the then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, but why was the recommendation made by Manmohan Adhikari not implemented? This was the context that was being raised in political circles.

The political situation was chaotic after the then Prime Minister Manmohan Adhikari dissolved the House of Representatives on 26 Jestha 2052 and recommended to King Birendra to hold mid-term elections. Some were arguing that the dissolution of the Parliament was the prerogative of the Prime Minister, while others were opposing the mid-term elections because the majority of MPs in the Parliament were in favor of an alternative government. There was also a perception that a minority government would not be able to hold mid-term elections.

After the Prime Minister recommended to the King to hold mid-term elections, the main opposition party, the Nepali Congress, presented Sher Bahadur Deuba, the leader of the parliamentary party, as the Prime Minister and registered a no-confidence motion against Manmohan at the Parliament Secretariat. The motion was signed by 103 MPs and submitted to the King on 29. At that time, there was a provision for 205 MPs in the House of Representatives.

Earlier, the opposition parties had also submitted a written complaint to the King on 28 stating that a majority government could be formed in the Parliament. Is the king also right or wrong to have a mid-term term? How constitutionally appropriate is the dissolution? He was discussing with former prime ministers, jurists, and the chairman and members of the Rajya Sabha Standing Committee to find a constitutional answer to this.

A special meeting of the House of Representatives was called for Asad 2, 2052. The Congress, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Sadbhavana Party, and independent lawmakers had accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of choosing the mid-term route instead of facing a no-confidence motion. After filing a complaint with the king, opposition party leader Deuba said that no other decision could be made constitutionally before the special session of the House of Representatives. The opposition had repeatedly said that the country's economic situation would weaken if mid-term elections were held.

The opposition had asked the king not to dissolve the parliament, saying that a stable government could be formed from the current parliament. RPP General Secretary and House of Representatives MP Pashupati Shumsher Rana had said that the recommendation to dissolve the parliament was not justified after the majority of MPs presented an alternative government. The then Speaker Ramchandra Poudel had maintained that the recommendation to dissolve the parliament should not be implemented.

UML leaders, including Prime Minister Adhikari, had been in favor of dissolving the parliament. In particular, the programs introduced by the UML during the government's tenure, such as "Build your own village", senior citizen allowance, joint registration pass in the name of women and men, and cooperatives in villages, were considered popular. Therefore, the UML believed that the results of the mid-term elections would be in its favor because it had introduced many programs that would make the people happy.

In a discussion organized by the UML at the parliamentary party office, UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal had said that the no-confidence motion was brought out of fear that the government would become popular by introducing people-oriented programs in the budget. UML parliamentarians had supported the mid-term elections, saying that whatever happened was good. Chief Whip Devi Prasad Ojha had informed that the UML parliamentary party meeting had welcomed the recommendation for the mid-term elections. At that time, the UML leadership and MPs seemed excited, saying that if the country went to the mid-term elections, there was a possibility of their party getting a majority. In the capital Kathmandu, the king, constitutional experts, and parties were busy discussing the situation after the mid-term elections. Businessmen were also discussing the economic situation of the country arising from the mid-term elections.

The Kantipur Daily published the news on 2052 Jestha 30, under the headlines ‘Shri 5 to reveal the name of the alternative government head’, ‘Let him speak when he becomes a Bhupu’, ‘Most are against the mid-term elections’, etc., focusing on the recommendation for the dissolution of the parliament, which was the first time in the country that a government was formed under the leadership of the Communist Party, 7 months after the formation of the government, a no-confidence motion was filed against Manmohan Singh by the majority of MPs, and the king was consulting on the dissolution of the parliament.