The CPN-UML parliamentary party met after Chief Minister Kamal Bahadur Shah dismissed his party's ministers. The meeting decided to withdraw support.
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The CPN-UML has decided to withdraw its support to the Sudurpaschim Province government. Chief Minister Kamal Bahadur Shah had dismissed four ministers, including a minister of state, from the UML government on Wednesday afternoon.
After Chief Minister Shah dismissed his party's ministers, a meeting of the CPN-UML parliamentary party was held. The decision to withdraw support was made effective from 5 pm on Wednesday, parliamentary party leader Rajendra Singh Rawal said.
'There was a government of political consensus.' But the Chief Minister unilaterally allocated a budget of five and a half billion rupees to his constituency. This violated the values of budget preparation,' said party leader Rawal. 'In the meantime, we discussed it at various stages, but he showed arrogance. He took today's decision after being in a minority even within his own party. Now we have decided to withdraw support.'
Earlier, Chief Minister Shah had dismissed Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Surendra Bahadur Pal, Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Hira Sarki, Minister for Land Management, Agriculture and Cooperatives Bir Bahadur Thapa, and Minister of State for Physical Infrastructure Development Nirmala Devi Saund.
The two ruling parties were at loggerheads over the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The UML itself rejected the budget brought by the participating government and the parliamentarians even registered a proposal to cut expenses, and the relationship between the Congress and the UML had soured.
With 2 days left to pass the budget, further confusion has arisen as the government itself finds itself in a minority.
