{"id":4783,"date":"2020-12-31T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T07:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T07:50:24","slug":"ncp-led-by-prachanda-camp-picks-bhim-acharya-as-new-parliamentary-party-leader-of-province-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4783","title":{"rendered":"NCP-led by Prachanda camp picks Bhim Acharya as new parliamentary party leader of Province 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KATHMANDU &#8211;\u00a0Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal \u2018Prachanda\u2019 and Madhav Kumar Nepal has picked Bhim Acharya as its new parliamentary party leader of Province 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The parliamentary party meeting held on Thursday sacked Chief Minister Sherdhan Rai as the parliamentary party leader and replaced him with Acharya.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Sunday, provincial assembly members close to Prachanda-Nepal-led NCP had registered a no-confidence motion against Province 1 Chief Minister Rai who is close to Prime Minister and NCP Chairman KP Sharma Oli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">37 provincial assembly members led by Indra Bahadur Aangbo have signed the motion to vote Chief Minister Rai out of the office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the second province where the NCP lawmakers have initiated a no-confidence motion against their Chief Minister following a split of the ruling party after PM Oli abruptly dissolved the House of Representatives last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier on Wednesday, NCP lawmakers of Bagmati had also removed Chief Minister Dormani Poudel as the parliamentary party leader and replaced him with Astalaxmi Shakya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211;\u00a0Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal \u2018Prachanda\u2019 and Madhav Kumar Nepal has picked Bhim Acharya as its new parliamentary party leader of Province 1. 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