Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned as speaker on Tuesday following allegation of raping a woman working at the federal parliament secretariat on Sunday, has submitted a second resignation on Wednesday. But he has not quit the post of lawmaker even in the second resignation letter.
A parliament secretariat source confided that he has corrected the Tuesday's resignation and sent the corrected letter to Deputy Speaker Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe dating it Tuesday.
"I have resigned on moral grounds effective from today till the investigation process is completed to facilitate fact-based, fair and independent investigation following allegations of different media outlets since yesterday raising serious questions about my character," the resignation letter issued by Mahara on in capacity of speaker on Tuesday read.
CPN leaders had slammed the resignation letter calling it conditional.
He has removed the part 'till the investigation process is completed' in Wednesday's letter, according to the source.
The emergency secretariat meeting held at the prime minister's (PM) residence in Baluwatar earlier in Tuesday afternoon had asked Mahara to resign from both speaker and lawmaker to facilitate investigation. But Mahara resigned only from the post of speaker and has yet to resign from that of lawmaker as per the secretariat decision.
The parliament secretariat has published the notice of Mahara's resignation after he submitted the second resignation letter.
CPN plans to dismiss him as per the provision about quitting party in the act related to political parties if he refuses to resign from lawmaker. A party's central committee can dismiss any member from the party, according to clause 32 of the act. Mahara will lose the post of lawmaker once he is dismissed from the party in this fashion.
Mahara has been accused of raping Roshni Shahi who works at the federal parliament secretariat on Sunday.
Shahi initially claimed an inebriated Mahara reached her rented apartment in Tinkune with a bottle of whiskey when there was no one else in the apartment Sunday night and raped her.
She, however, changed her statement later Tuesday stating that Mahara did not rape her and just misbehaved.
