KATHMANDU, Oct 21: Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has accepted the resignation of Kumar Belbase as labor and employment minister on Sunday.
Earlier in the morning, Belbase had submitted his resignation letter, a day after PM Bhattarai ordered him to put in papers after reports emerged that the minister was involved in bribery. [break]
The PM was said to have warned that the minister submit his resignation or face sacking. Members of Anti Corruption Nepal, an NGO, recorded eight video during their "sting´ including one in which Belbase himself assures the group of completing their work before Dashain in return for the money.
The videos were posted on a Nepali news website on Saturday. In one of the videos, Belbase´s aide and party alternative central committee member Bhaskar Kafle, is seen asking for Rs. 250,000 to register a recruitment agency.
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