UML moves SC against Koshi Province CM Thapa’s vote of confidence

The CPN-UML has moved the Supreme Court against the vote of confidence taken unconstitutionally by Koshi Province Chief Minister Uddhav Thapa.

The UML filed a writ at the apex court arguing that Thapa sought the vote of confidence against the Constitution.

UML Koshi Province Parliamentary Party leader and former Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki along with other leaders had reached the Supreme Court to register the writ.

Speaker Israel Mansuri had also cast his vote while Thapa, also the Nepali Congress Koshi Province Parliamentary Party leader, was seeking a vote of confidence.

There is a provision that the Speaker cannot vote to form a new government. The Speaker can cast a decisive vote if there is a tie.   

UML Koshi Province Parliamentary Party Chief Whip Rewati Raman Bhandari said that the process of filing a petition in the Supreme Court has been taken ahead as the Chief Minister took the vote of confidence by violating the Constitution.

“We have given the writ. It is in the process of registration. The vote of confidence was sought against the Constitution, law and parliamentary practice. Our demand that it should be annulled,” he said.

Thapa was appointed as the Chief Minister on August 1.

He sought the vote of confidence from the Province Assembly on Monday.