KATHMANDU Mar 11: Out of 268 present in the session, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has secured 208 votes of confidence from the House of Representatives on Sunday evening.
He secured 121 from CPN-UML, 51 from CPN (Maoist Center), 16 each from Rastriya Janta Party Nepal and Federal Socialist Forum Nepal, one each from Rastriya Janamorcha, Rastriya Prajatantra Party and one independent lawmaker Chhaka Bahadur Lama.
Province 5 CM secures two-thirds majority in vote of confidence
59 lawmakers from Nepali Congress, the main opposition party, and one lawmaker from Nepal Workers Peasants Party have voted against the confidence motion.
Naya Shakti Nepal's leader Baburam Bhattarai and RJPN lawmaker Resham Chaudhary missed the voting. Bhattarai is out of country and Chaudhary is in charged of alleging the mastermind of Tikapur incident.
