Kathmandu: Sher Bahadur Deuba has officially become Nepal's new PM on Sunday. He has easily won a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha of Parliament on Sunday. Deuba got 165 votes out of a total of 275. A total of 249 MPs participated in the voting process. Out of these, 165 votes were cast in his favour, while 83 votes were cast against him.
MPs from Nepali Congress, CPN Maoist Centre and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal voted in favour of Deuba. Thakur-Mahato faction of JSP-N decided to vote for Deuba in the last hour. MPs from the disgruntled faction of the UML were also divided in this regard. PM Narendra Modi has congratulated Sher Bahadur Deuba on officially becoming the PM of Nepal. He wrote in his tweet, 'Congratulations to Sher Bahadur Deuba on becoming PM. I wish you a successful tenure. I hope we will take forward our unique partnership strongly in all sectors and further strengthen old relations.'
The 75-year-old Deuba, president of the Nepali Congress, was sworn in as PM on July 13. A day earlier, a constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of Nepal's Supreme Court Cholendra Shamsher Rana ordered the restoration of the Lok Sabha House of Representatives of Parliament, which was dissolved by President Vidya Devi Bhandari on May 22, the second time in five months, on the recommendation of the then PM KP Sharma Oli. The court had termed the verdict as unconstitutional.
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