Less than a hundred days had passed since Lokendra Bahadur Chand, leader of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, became Prime Minister with the support of the UML. In the meantime, under Chand's leadership, the UML had won a majority in the local elections held on Jestha 4 and 13, 2054. The election results were disappointing in favor of the Nepali Congress and the ruling RPP.

RPP cadres were expressing anger towards Chand after feeling that they were weak in the elections held by the government that had its own prime minister. Incidents of UML cadres attacking the Congress and the RPP in various districts were being made public. The parties felt that they were being crushed by the police administration siding with the UML.

The Maoists were targeting the Congress and the RPP from the jungle, while the opposition accused Home Minister Bamdev Gautam of using the state structure in favor of the party to manipulate the election results in his favor. Within a few days of becoming the Home Minister, there was a loud outcry within the RPP that the Inspector General of Nepal Police, Achyut Krishna Kharel, had been replaced by Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan and used the police administration to his advantage. The Congress had also started talking about supporting RPP Chairman Surya Bahadur Thapa and making him the Prime Minister.

In this backdrop, Foreign Minister Prakash Chandra Lohani unexpectedly announced his resignation from the post. Lohani had announced his resignation at the end of a press conference organized at Sheetal Niwas to inform about the talks and understandings he had with Indian Prime Minister Indra Kumar Gujral, who had returned from a three-day visit since Jestha 23. His resignation, less than a hundred days after the formation of the government, had also embarrassed Prime Minister Chand.

The issues mentioned by the party's general secretary and senior minister Lohani in his resignation were very serious and of a long-term nature. He had accused the Chand government of trying to destroy not only the party but also the values ​​of democracy. In his resignation, he had mentioned that since the formation of the new government, the role of the government in the country has been contrary to the values ​​of democracy and the principles of administration. He had repeatedly mentioned that Chand's leadership was a helpless and innocent shadow of the UML.

He had said that considering the events that have occurred in the country within two months since the formation of the government, the repression of cadres and the helplessness of the RPP in it, he had resigned because he saw that remaining in power as a prisoner of office was not in the interest of the party and was not in favor of the eternal values ​​and values ​​accepted by the constitution.

He said that he had not been able to protect the cadres while in power and had become a helpless shadow of the UML. While resigning, he had said, ‘The Prime Minister clearly knows that even in districts where there are prominent leaders of the RPP, the nomination papers of RPP cadres have been canceled and the UML has been single-handedly won the election.’

He had told the Prime Minister that ideological differences had begun since the formation of the government, and that the practice of sudden and unprovoked changes in the key positions of the peace and security organs was undermining the concept of fair administration in the country and the newly established democratic foundation. He had expressed his disagreement with Prime Minister Chand over the changes in the security agency officials on the eve of the election. He had said in his resignation that it was wrong to see the party and the government as one. He reminded the Prime Minister that there had been a voice of nationwide rigging and terror in the local elections.

In his resignation, he mentioned that the UML, which is a member of the ruling party, has been treating the RPP with inferior and unfriendly behavior nationwide with the support and support of the administration, and that the accepted understandings have been violated. But he said that the Prime Minister did not ask anyone about the pain and outcry towards the RPP. The news prepared in the context of Minister Lohani's resignation at a time when instability has arisen in the country due to repeated changes of power was published by Kantipur Daily on 2054 Jestha 30 under the title 'Foreign Minister Lohani's resignation'.