Prachanda Sings Sad Song “Kasailai Maya Garnu Euta Bhul Gare Maile” to UML Ministers While Accepting Resignations

Ministers from the CPN-UML have collectively submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. After an agreement was reached between the UML and Congress to form a new government, the UML ministers arrived at Baluwatar on Wednesday evening with their resignation letters. Prachanda accepted the resignations of each UML minister one by one. After accepting the resignations, Prachanda did not make many comments.

“I’ll just say one thing,” he said, then sang a line from Fatteman Rajbhandari’s song, “Yasto pani hundo raicha jindagi ma kaile kaile, kasailai maya garnu eutaa bhul gare maile (Sometimes in life, it happens that I made a mistake by loving someone).”

As per Article 100 (2), the Prime Minister is required to table a motion in the House of Representatives for a vote of confidence within thirty days if the political party he represents is divided or if a coalition party withdraws its support.

With the UML’s decision to withdraw support, Prime Minister Dahal must take a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives. However, this process starts only after a formal notification of the withdrawal of support is given to Parliament. In other words, the Prime Minister has to take a vote of confidence within thirty days of the UML’s formal notification of withdrawal of support to the Parliament.