INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, February 2The Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party will wait on 2 days before deciding whether or not it must leave the
federal government over home portfolio.
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RSP Spokesperson Mukul Dhakal told mediapersons after his partys central committee met parliamentary celebration lawmakers that
Lamichhane received calls from Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chair Rajendra
Lingden throughout the conference requesting him to wait on two days prior to pick withdrawing support to the government.
Dhakal said his
party desired the home portfolio since that was the contract in between coalition partners
We want to provide services and we have actually prepared the blueprint of our strategy
Now is the time to execute our plan, Dhakal said.He stated his celebration would take a contact who it wished to make the home minister
after the PM consented to give it the home portfolio.The PM has said that he wanted to wait till the Supreme Court launched full text of the
verdict delivered in the case filed versus Lamichhane for not getting his Nepali citizenship restored after renouncing his American
citizenship.The SC revoked Lamichhanes election to your home of Representatives last week
Some RSP lawmakers are not in favour of giving up the federal government over the house portfolio.Meanwhile, UML Chair Oli has actually
thrown his weight behind Lamichhane
Speaking with mediapersons in Biratnagar today, Oli stated ruling coalition partners had reached an agreement that the house portfolio ought
to be offered to the RSP and they needed to abide by that
He stated complete text of the decision was not essential to pick the house portfolio
Why do we need the full text? Do we need it to recite its contents? he wondered.Asked to comment on Nepali Congress leader Shashank
Koiralas remarks that the NC would sign up with the government if given the house portfolio, Oli stated the NC would sign up with the
government even if its leader was made a Minister of State for Home Affairs.CPN-MC Vice-chair Krishna Bahadur Mahara informed mediapersons
after his partys standing committee conference that the RSP required to have patience as the SC had actually not yet released the full text
He stated Olis contention that the RSP need to get the home portfolio was his individual view and had actually not created any rift in the
judgment alliance.After the CPN-MC meeting, Dahal said he did not think that the RSP would leave the government.A version of this article
appears in the print on February 3, 2023, of The Himalayan Times
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