Jhala Nath Khanal new Prime Minister of Nepal

Nepal has finally got a Prime Minister ending the six-month long status quo as the Legislature Parliament elected UML chairman Jhala Nath Khanal to the top executive post Thursday evening.

Khanal got elected as the PM Thursday evening defeating his rivals Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Paudel and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum – Loktantrik chairman Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar at the election held at the parliament Thursday evening.

Khanal got elected as the 34th Prime Minister of Nepal through a parliament voting as the largest party in the parliament, the Unified CPN (Maoist) withdrew in his support.

UCPN (Maoist), which had fielded its chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda for the post of the Prime Minister, decided through an emergency standing committee meeting to withdraw Dahal’s candidacy and support Khanal.

Speaking at the Legislature Parliament, Maoist chairman Dahal said, his party was sacrificing once again for the sake of the nation and people by supporting Khanal to end the status quo.

We have decided to sacrifice once again to show that we Nepalis can decide nfor ourselves, said Dahal.

With Khanal’s election to the top executive post, a six-month long status quo has ended. The nation was running under a caretaker government for the last six months after erstwhile Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned in June last year.

Khanal was born in Ilam on March 2, 1950. He has been involved in politics for over three decades. He was elected the UML chairman by the eighth general convention of the party on February 16, 2009. Khanal got elected as lawmaker from Ilam constituency 1 in the CA elections in 2008.

Khanal had also filed nomination for the post of Prime Minister in the previous election process which prolonged for six months without any results. He had withdrawn his candidacy as he could not get assurance of two-thirds lawmakers in the parliament as per the mandate of his party’s Central Committee. nepalnews.com

However, the foreign powers, especially, the Indian ruling class was in the serious efforts to prolong process and defeat the Maoists  and the patriotic forces .

Some of the experts of the Research Analysis Wing (RAW) were taking shelter in some big hotels of Kathmandu to foil the Prime Ministerial Election according to Krishnasenonline..