KATHMANDU, Jan 14: Shankar Pokharel, the general secretary of CPN-UML, the main opposition party, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Secretary Pokharel has maintained that he was not able to keep himself away from the third wave of COVID-19 that the country is currently battling with.
"I will be staying in isolation for the next few days," Pokharel wrote on his Facebook page.
BUTWAL, Aug 11: Chief Minister of Lumbini Province, Shankar Pokharel has resigned from his post.
CM Pokharel, who was scheduled to face a no-confidence motion in a Special Session of the provincial assembly meeting, reached the Office of Province Chief Amik Sherchan and submitted his resignation letter on Wednesday.
Baijnath Chaudhary, spokesperson for the Lumbini Province Government, confirmed Pokharel’s resignation.
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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