Altogether 268 MPs were present during the voting. 110 votes were cast against Prachanda while one lawmaker abstained from voting. He needed 138 votes to win the trust vote.
A PM is required to cross threshold of 50%, which is 138 votes as per present number of parliamentarians. Dahal is expected to get a comfortable majority.
The 4-day visit is Dahal's first foreign trip since he was elected PM again in December. He has visited India twice before in two previous tenures as prime minister dating back to 2008.
Prachanda’s support for Ram Chandra Paudel of Nepali Congress has put ruling coalition in flux with deputy prime minister and three other ministers resigning. 3 parties have quit alliance too.
Border demarcation and Kathmandu’s long-pending demand of reviewing the India-Nepal 1950 Friendship Treaty were also raised by the communist leader during his three-day visit
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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