Chief Minister Baniyan is scheduled to take vote of confidence at 4 o'clock on Tuesday.
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Bagmati Chief Minister Indra Bahadur Baniyan is in a desperate situation as the time to take the vote of confidence is approaching. Baniyan, who was appointed Chief Minister on July 20 after replacing the government led by Bahadur Singh Lama, is scheduled to take a vote of confidence at 4 o'clock on Tuesday in the new building of the provincial assembly.
Due to the dispute within the party, 14 MPs including Bahadur Singh Lama, Kundan Kafle and Tirtha Lama are sitting together in Kathmandu. They have also met and discussed with Congress president Sher Bahadur Deuba three times.
MP Kundan Kafle said, 'This is a political matter . There is a possibility of meeting between them but not yet. We will not come to Hetaunda until the matter is resolved. It is the work of the Provincial Assembly to move/not move the time of the vote of confidence.'
Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party spokesperson Surajchandra Lamichhane said that 'there is no decision to move the meeting and it will be held at the appointed time'.
Lama was appointed Chief Minister a year ago according to the agreement that Congress will take the leadership in Bagmati for the first two years after the Congress and UML became an equation at the center . However, after Lama was removed in the internal power struggle within the party, Baniyan was appointed as the Chief Minister for the rest of the term.
He resigned on July 18 after the Banyan-led group removed Lama as the leader of the parliamentary party. Although he was removed from the leadership of the Congress parliamentary party, he was initially reluctant to leave the chief ministership. After a motion of no confidence was registered against him in the parliamentary party, Lama, as the Chief Minister, appointed Provincial Assembly members Govind Lamsal as Ministers for Internal Affairs and Law and Maya Shrestha and Geeta Gurung as Ministers.
56 votes are required for a vote of confidence in the 110-member provincial assembly. There are 37 MPs of Congress and 27 MPs of UML. If 14 MPs of the Congress take the risk and decide not to give a vote of confidence, there will be only 47 votes in favor of the government. This will make the post of Chief Minister Baniyan very difficult.
However, their oath was stopped when the provincial chief stayed in the capital. Later, party chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba called Lama and Baniyan, who is also the chairman of the party's state working committee, to his residence and reached an agreement. Then Lama agreed to resign. According to Lama, in the discussion held by party chairman Deuba in Rohbar, there was an agreement to continue the three ministers appointed by him but who did not take oath.
There are 14 ministries in Bagmati. Congress got 8 ministries including Chief Minister and UML got 6 ministries . UML has already sent 6 ministers to the government while Congress has sent only two ministers. Ministers from Congress are Water, Energy and Irrigation Minister Krishna Kumar Tamang and Shivraj Adhikari. The ministry of the officer is not specified . Both the bases are close .
