{"id":4338,"date":"2020-12-15T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2020-12-15T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T11:28:45","slug":"prime-minister-oli-seeks-resignation-of-party-chief-whip-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4338","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Oli seeks resignation of party Chief Whip Gurung"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>KATHMANDU &#8211;<\/strong> Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has sought resignation of Dev Gurung from the post of Chief Whip of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a party source, Prime Minister Oli, who is also the NCP Chairman, instructed Gurung to step down as the Chief Whip immediately after the standing committee meeting\u00a0 held on Sunday citing that he did not cooperate with the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou did not support the government. You have to resign from the post of the Chief Whip,\u201d a party source quoted Prime Minister Oli as instructing Chief Whip Gurung.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to the instruction, Gurung reportedly told Prime Minister Oli that he wouldn&#8217;t quit as he became the Chief Whip based on the party\u2019s statute and procedure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gurung has already informed party\u2019s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal \u2018Prachanda\u2019 and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal about the Prime Minister\u2019s resignation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prachanda has already expressed dissatisfaction with Oli about his pressure upon the Chief Whip to quit from the post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source,\u00a0 he has already urged PM Oli to not convene the Constitutional Council meeting without holding consultations in the party and seek resignation of the party Chief Whip. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has sought resignation of Dev Gurung from the post of Chief Whip of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).\u00a0 According to a party source, Prime Minister Oli, who is also the NCP Chairman, instructed Gurung to step down as the Chief Whip immediately after the standing committee meeting\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prime Minister Oli seeks resignation of party Chief Whip Gurung - KathmanduPati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4338\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prime Minister Oli seeks resignation of party Chief Whip Gurung - KathmanduPati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU &#8211; 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