Two prime ministers had been elected in the 17 months since the mid-term elections held on Kartik 29, 2051. The minority UML government led by Manmohan Adhikari was removed from power nine months later by a no-confidence motion. Six months after Manmohan was removed and Sher Bahadur Deuba became prime minister, another no-confidence motion was passed in the House of Representatives.

UML had put forward Lokendra Bahadur Chand, the leader of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party parliamentary party, as the Prime Minister to topple the Deuba government. The House of Representatives voted on the no-confidence motion filed by UML on 29 Falgun 2009 on Chaitra 11. Deuba's position was saved after the motion did not receive enough votes in favor of the motion. But UML had analyzed that its motion had exacerbated the mood of division in the RPP. UML was ready to give the RPP the Prime Minister to topple the Deuba government. Even after the no-confidence motion was rejected, UML was still trying to figure out how to topple the government. It was conducting protests and public awareness programs to bring the government's weaknesses to the public as an awareness campaign. The Deuba government was being criticized for failing to provide security to citizens. In particular, the Maoist insurgency that began in 2009 had spread to almost all districts, raising questions about security. The UML considered it a weakness of the government.

In a meeting held in Kathmandu on 2009, UML Chairman Manmohan Adhikari challenged the government by announcing the formation of his own security forces in the villages as the state was unable to provide security. At a protest meeting organized by the UML Kathmandu Special Coordination Committee at the Tundikhel Open Manch, Manmohan had said, ‘I will not sacrifice my life without bringing the UML back into the government.’ At that time, the issue of leading the government or participating in the government became a matter of prestige for all parties. The UML considered the incident of having to step down from the nine-month-old government as an ‘ego’. In order to enter the government, the Congress had formed an alliance with the RPP to overthrow the nine-month-old UML government. UML had to monitor the MPs to face the no-confidence motion brought against the Deuba government.

Even though it was in the minority among the representatives, UML was in a state of mind to topple the government. That is why it had made an 'offer' to give the Prime Ministership to RPP leader Chand. UML's 'offer' had saved the RPP from the brink of a split. RPP ministers participating in the Deuba government with 20 seats in the House of Representatives had stood in favor of the no-confidence motion against themselves. Manmohan Singh had announced that he would not sacrifice his life to take over the reins of power.

At a meeting organized in the open arena against inflation, massacres and terrorism, Manmohan Singh had announced the start of a movement against the government. He had said that the government had suppressed the peaceful movement of the UML and that there would be a split among the parties supporting the Deuba leadership. He had said, ‘There will be a big fight between the parties in the government until the next election. We will not sit back and watch.’ Manmohan had also claimed at a program organized in Bhaktapur on Baisakh 8 that the Deuba government would last only until Ashar 2053. The UML’s standing committee meeting held on Chaitra 15 concluded that the no-confidence motion that was voted down in the House of Representatives was an identification of a force that was acting under nationalist and foreign influence. At the open forum program, UML Deputy General Secretary and MP Bamdev Gautam had said that the Deuba-led government was artificially formed through a conspiracy. He had protested against the government’s indiscriminate shooting of Maoists. He had also questioned whether the police were not subject to the law. Gautam had called the 'people's war' launched by the UML a so-called war. Gautam claimed that the Western imperialists had overthrown the UML's nine-month government since the Sugauli Treaty of 1816.

UML was then conducting a nationwide movement against the government in the name of the Jagaran Abhiyan. On the same day, while speaking at the third district conference of UML Tanahun, Standing Committee member KP Sharma Oli said that the people had overthrown the Congress through the mid-term elections.

After the no-confidence motion against Deuba was not passed, the Kantipur Daily published a news report focusing on the campaign against the government launched by the UML across the country and the statements made by the leaders focusing on power as the center of power on 2053 Baisakh 8 under the title 'The determination of officials who did not sacrifice their lives by not bringing the UML to power'.