The parties had given a vote of confidence to the minority Prime Minister Koirala. But those parties had not come to power.
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The UML was divided, led by leaders including Bamdev Gautam, Sahana Pradhan, Radhakrishna Mainali, CP Mainali. 40 MPs known as opponents of the Mahakali Treaty and their associated leaders formed the Male Party. Although the final excuse for splitting the party was the Mahakali Treaty, the dispute sown at the fifth general convention of the UML in 2049 increased, but the party itself split after 5 years. After the mid-term of 2051, the UML, which had become the first party in the parliament, fell to the second due to the split.
Due to the extreme political hunger for power, the unnatural activities seen in the parliamentary system from 2051 to 2055 were a distorted form of history. Which is still seen as a dark time in parliamentary history. At that time, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the UML were divided due to power, power and ambition.
After the first and third parties split, the Congress, which was in second place in the parliament, became the first overnight. As the largest party, Girija Prasad Koirala, the leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party, became the Prime Minister in the last week of Chaitra 2054. The parties had given a vote of confidence to Koirala, the minority Prime Minister. But those parties had not come to power. Koirala had brought the ML to power after a long effort. Koirala had reorganized the cabinet for the second time and brought in ML leaders on Bhadra 10, 2055. He included 13 ML MPs in the 32-member cabinet. Radhakrishna Mainali led the government from ML. Girija Prasad was not given a vote of confidence by ML MPs. But they did come to power. The UML, which gave a vote of confidence, was out of power. The ministers who went to the cabinet from ML were all new except Radhakrishna Mainali.
On the other hand, the old leaders of the Nepali Congress had repeated themselves a lot. Khum Bahadur Khadka, Bimalendra Nidhi, Vijay Kumar Gachhadar, Ram Sharan Mahat, Chiranjeevi Wagle, Arjun Narsingh KC Purna Bahadur Khadka and other leaders became 19 ministers from the Nepali Congress. Govinda Raj Joshi was brought into the Home Ministry. Khum Bahadur, who became the Minister of Supplies in the cabinet formed by Koirala on 2 April 2008, had resigned. But in the latest reshuffle, he was given the same ministry again. He was the Home Minister during the previous 7-month tenure of Surya Bahadur Thapa. He was placed at number five in the cabinet. Koirala had dismissed some leaders from the Nepali Congress who had previously been in the cabinet and brought in Male. There were 14 new faces in the cabinet.
Before Male came to power, a nine-point agreement had been reached with the government on issues such as reviewing the 1950 treaty with India, removing Indian troops from Kalapani, and securing the Maoists. The background to Male joining the government was this agreement. But the ML had also reached a 27-point agreement with the government on 31st July 2006. After that agreement, the ML had decided to come to power.
The UML, on the other hand, had reacted by saying that the Congress had exposed the nationalism of the ML. The ML chairperson, Sahna Pradhan, had claimed that the Congress had come to the ML's position. Koirala, on the other hand, had planned to take all the parties to the cabinet and hold parliamentary elections in 2006 Baisakh. The news prepared with reference to the issue of the ML party, which was formed by splitting from the UML, coming to power, was published by the Kantipur Daily on 11th Bhadra 2006 under the title 'Reorganization of the Koirala Cabinet'. At that time, Koirala had become the Prime Minister with the slogan of good governance and political stability. He had also expressed his commitment to hold parliamentary elections.
Presentation: Rishiram Paudyal
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