On January 7, 2079, on the initiative of UML president KP Sharma Oli, Indira Rana was made the deputy speaker of RSVP. But now the situation has changed. The ruling coalition led by Oli is trying to remove him. Why has this scenario changed?
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Let's go to the political scenario three years ago. An election was held to elect the Deputy Speaker. Muktakumari Yadav of Nepali Congress and Indira Rana of RSVP were competing.
In the election held on 7th January 2079, 166 votes were cast in favor of Indira and only 97 votes were cast against the . UML, Maoist Centre, National Independent Party and UML has now moved to remove this Rana, who was the Deputy Speaker, by the votes of the MPs of the parties in the alliance including RPR .
This scenario has another interesting background . At that time, UML President Oli was active in making Rana the Deputy Speaker. Even now, some leaders of the RSWP say in informal conversations that if it were not for Oli's sincerity, there would have been other candidates from the RSWP. At that time, UML, Maoist Center, RSVP And it was Oli who took the initiative to bring RPP together. Because UML was the first party in the power coalition, Oli was decisive.
UML got the speaker and Maoist got the leadership of the government . As a third party, the claim of RSVP was on the Deputy Speaker.
At that time, Sobita Gautam was seen as a possible candidate within the RSVP . Being a directly elected MP and having a legal background, Gautam was the talk of the town. But UML president Oli, not only looking at the power equation, thought that Rana would be easier than Gautam for the Constitutional Council meeting. So he made the RSVP agree to move Rana forward as Deputy Speaker by giving 'back up'. Behind this, the background of the home district of both of them being Jhapa was also connected.
At that time, Oli met Rana and told him not to back down from the claim of the Deputy Speaker. RSVP President Ravi Lamichhane also tried to move Sobita Gautam as the deputy speaker. But Gautam was not recommended after the choice of the strong UML within the power coalition. In order not to cause dissatisfaction within the party, on the proposal of Gautam, the RSVP made Rana the deputy speaker candidate.
Why is it necessary to discuss all this background at this time when Oli, who moved to make Rana the Deputy Speaker, is now making many efforts to remove him from the post. Oli, who is leading the government, is going to remove Deputy Speaker Rana to keep the majority of the Constitutional Council under his control. For that, it has started signing from Tuesday (August 3) after consultation with the Congress, the companion of the ruling coalition.
Congress and UML do not have a majority and the smaller parties are not ready and the Deputy Speaker Rana is out of the country.
Article 91 of the Constitution, Article 6, provides for the removal of Speaker and Deputy Speaker from office. In that section, three conditions have been set for the post of Speaker and Deputy Speaker to be vacant. If the first condition is not being a member of the House of Representatives, the second is if he resigns in writing and the third is if the resolution that the position is not suitable for conduct is passed by a majority of two-thirds of the total number of members of the House of Representatives, the position is said to be vacant .
In the case of Rana, the ruling coalition has taken the third term and moved forward. To pass the motion to remove the Deputy Speaker, two thirds ie 184 votes are required in the House of Representatives.
Only Congress and UML will not be enough in the 275-member House of Representatives, 20 more MPs are needed for that. For that, Janata Samajwadi Nepal, Civil Liberation Party, Democratic Socialist Party and other parties should be supported.
