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We just want to hand over power ‘legally’: Govt spokesperson on leftists’ charge

Mohan Bahadur Basnet. RSS/File

Kathmandu, December 19

The government on Tuesday made an official response to the leftist alliance’s accusation that Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Nepali Congress party are trying to prolong their stay in power by denying to step down.

The government’s spokesperson and Minister for Information and Communications Mohan Bahadur Basnet organised a press meet in Kathmandu today and said, “The government does not want to linger with legal complexities. We just want to handover the power through constitutional and legal ways.”

Basnet said the Prime Minister would quit once the President would enact the National Assembly Election Ordinance that the Cabinet had sent to her around two months ago. The alliance constituents–CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre–have been advocating against the bill citing it includes the provision of single transferable vote and it is against sentiments of the constitution.

Owing to the lack of law, the Election Commission has not officially announced results of House of Representatives elections too.

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