The parliamentary party meeting of provincial assembly members of CPN-UML on Monday has decided to not leave the post of chief minister (CM) to coalition partner in the left alliance CPN (Maoist Center).
The provincial assembly members from the province where UML has won 20 of 40 seats have taken the decision to put pressure on the party leadership before the coordination committee for unification of the two parties could take a decision on that. The members have taken this decision and urged the central leadership to not leave the post of CM to Maoist Center when UML has won 50 percent seats in the province.
"We have won 50 percent seats. We can form the government on our own and can run the government and even sustain it," provincial assembly member Yam Lal Kandel, who headed the meeting, told Setopati. "The meeting has decided to claim the leadership of the provincial government with the party leadership," he added.
A government without UML cannot be formed in the province as UML has won 50 percent of seats. Parliamentary party leader of UML will become the CM if the party does not support any other party due to the constitutional provision that requires the provincial chief to appoint the parliamentary party leader of the largest party as CM.
Maoist Center has been claiming for CM in Province 6. Mahendra Bahadur Shahi is the contender for CM post from Maoist Center. The party had fielded Shahi, who was minister in the Sher Bahadur Deuba government, in the provincial assembly election to make him CM.
