Kathmandu, Oct. 14
Leader of Nepali Congress, Kedar Karki, has
been appointed as the Chief Minister of Koshi province. He has obtained the
required majority needed to become the chief minister of the province, the
Office of the Province Chief confirmed.
Karki is the sixth chief minister of Koshi.
He garnered the support of 47 members of
the Provincial assembly which is the majority for the 93-member House. He was
successful to draw the support from 39 members of the assembly from the
CPN-UML.
Along with Kedar Karki, Indra Bahadur Angbo
of the CPN (Maoist Centre) had also claimed for the Chief Ministership.
On Friday, they both presented the support
47-47 MPs for each of them so the Provincial Chief had fixed time for the
identification of the supporters of both the candidates.
After the confirmation of the majority
through the identification process, Parshuram Khapung appointed Karki as the
Chief Minister of the province according to Article 168 (5) of the Constitution.
No one was present for the identification
of supporters for Maoist Centre's Angbo. Following the top leadership of the NC
forged agreement with the CPN (MC) to elect Angbo as the CM of the province,
dissatisfied Dr. Shekhar Koirala faction of the party had fielded its candidate
with the support from the CPN-UML.
Earlier, Karki was defeated as the
candidate to become the leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party as he
could gain support from 9 members out of 29.
He said that the decision to forge
collaboration with the UML was made to save the province from the mid-term
elections.
Karki was born in Okhaldhunga district 22
December 1973. He became the chairman of Nepal Student Union, a NC-affiliated
student wing, in Janata Higher Secondary School in Inruwa at the age of 14.
He was briefly jailed during the People's
Movement in 2006. He was elected to the provincial assemble from Morang
election constituency 6(2).
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