Chief Minister Mahara of Lumbini is in trouble from the coalition party
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The Chief Minister of Lumbini Province, Jokh Bahadur Mahara, is in trouble from the ruling coalition parties. He is also under pressure from his own party Maoist to appoint one more minister according to the division.
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Maoist parliamentary party leader Mahara was appointed as the Chief Minister on 23 March. After independent MP Khadak Basnet and Bhagwati Adhikari of the United Samajwadi Party, which has one MP, became ministers in the Lumbini State Assembly, the Civil Liberation Party, which has 4 MPs, and the Janata Samajwadi Party, which has 3 MPs, have also increased their 'bargaining'.
Mahara, who increased the ministry to an 11-member cabinet on Thursday, is under more stress after Bhandarilal Ahir, who is a minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Management from Jaspa, resigned saying that he did not give two ministries as per the written agreement. According to the written agreement, he has to give the Ministry of Tourism and Urban Development . If the agreement is still not implemented, Jaspa has warned that the support given to the government will be withdrawn.
After the resignation of Minister Ahir, Chief Minister Mahara, who went to Kathmandu to woo Jaspa President Upendra Yadav, could not achieve anything. "According to the agreement, we will withdraw the support without giving two ministers," said Ashok Yadav, President of Jaspa Lumbini Province, "now only resignation is required". Even though the party recommended the names of Ahir and Ambika Kafle as ministers, they tried to get rid of them by giving one minister. Rajkumar Chaudhary, chief whip of civil emancipation, said that the Chief Minister was not interested in asking for two ministries. Dharma Bahadur Chaudhary has become a non-departmental minister due to civil liberties.
Chief Minister Mahara on Thursday expanded the government by making 4 from UML, one for Citizens' Liberation and one independent MP Khadak Basnet as a non-departmental minister. According to the agreement, Bhagwati Adhikari of the United Samajwadi Party was not made a minister. After he threatened to topple the government, he made an 11-member council of ministers by adding officers on the same day. As per the agreement and demand, one/one minister should be added from Maoist, Jaspa and Civil Immunity. With this addition, it seems that the number of ministries will reach 14 . Chief Minister Mahara is in the mood to satisfy everyone even though he has added a ministry. "We need to find a way to save the alliance whether by increasing the number of ministries or by other methods," Lumbini government spokesperson Dipendra Kumar Pun Magar said, "consultations and discussions are underway." The consensus must also be followed.
Jaspa 2, civil liberties should also be reconciled and Maoists also did not get one more ministry as per the consensus, he said. He indicated that since there is an obligation to increase the number of ministries, Chief Minister Mahara went to Kathmandu to consult with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and the top leaders of the coalition.
The ruling party UMA is in favor of not increasing the number of ministries. UML party chief whip Tulsi Prasad Chowdhury said that the economic situation is weak, when questions are being raised about the legitimacy of the provincial government, the number of ministries should be reduced, and there should be no additional financial burden.
Chief Minister Mahara appointed Chetnarayan Acharya from UML as a non-departmental minister on March 25, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Planning, Dipendra Pun from Maoist was assigned the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and Ahir of Jaspa along with the Spokesperson . The 11-member ministry consists of Dinesh Panthi, Arjun Kumar KC, Bhumishwar Dhakal and Rantha Bahadur Khatri from UML, Dharma Bahadur Chaudhary from Naupa, Bhagwati Adhikari of United Samajwadi Party and independent MP Khadak Basnet as non-departmental ministers.
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