{"id":2231,"date":"2021-05-02T19:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T10:31:03","slug":"cabinet-recommends-summoning-parliaments-budget-session-on-april-10-pm-oli-announces-taking-vote-of-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/05\/02\/cabinet-recommends-summoning-parliaments-budget-session-on-april-10-pm-oli-announces-taking-vote-of-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bhandari summons Parliament\u2019s session for May 10; PM Oli to take vote of confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday summoned a session of the Parliament for May 10 on the recommendation of the government for Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to take a vote of confidence.<br><br>The meeting has been summoned for 1 pm on May 10.<br><br>Earlier, a meeting of Council of Ministers held at the Prime Minister\u2019s residence in Baluwatar had decided to recommend before President Bhandari to summon the House.<br><br>As per the Constitutional provision, President summons and prorogues Parliament session on recommendation of Cabinet.<br><br>During the Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister told Cabinet ministers that he will be facing the Parliament for a vote of confidence.<br><br>A statement from the President&#8217;s Office stated that the session was convened as Prime Minister Oli decided to take a vote of confidence.<br><br>The Prime Minister opted to take a vote of confidence although the CPN (Maoist Center) has not withdrawn support to the incumbent government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 271-member House of Representatives, UML has 121 seats, Nepali Congress 63, Maoist Center of Pushpa Kamal Dahal 49, Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) 34, and smaller parties four seats.<br><br>To remain in office, the prime minister must have the support of 136 lawmakers.<br><br>It should be noted that the UML faction led by Oli commands around 86 seats while UML led by Madhav Nepal has 35 lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Sunday summoned a session of the Parliament for May 10 on the recommendation of the government for Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to take a vote of confidence. The meeting has been summoned for 1 pm on May 10. Earlier, a meeting of Council of Ministers held at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/President-Bhandair.jpg?fit=883%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-zZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}