Lumbini Chief Minister Shankar Pokharel resigns

BUTWAL, May 2:Chief Minister of Lumbini Province, Shankar Pokharel has resigned from his post a day before the voting on no-confidence motion registered against him.  Pokharel tendered his resignation to Dharmanath Yadav, Governor of the province, which Yadav approved on Sunday itself.  The no-confidence motion filed against Pokharel was scheduled to be tabled at the Lumbini Province Assembly on Sunday and settled on Monday.  Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) and Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) had filed a no-confidence motion against Pokharel on April 19. As many as 41 lawmakers signed in the motion registered at the Parliament Secretariat.   Maoist lawmaker Kul Prasad KC was proposed as the new CM.  CM Pokharel required 43 votes to survive the motion in the assembly with 87 members.

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