The parliamentary voting to elect the new prime minister slated for Sunday has been affected after the main opposition CPN-UML warned of obstructing the Legislature-Parliament in protest against the EC's decision to conduct re-election in Ward-19 of Bharatpur Metropolitan City in Chitwan district.

The Parliament meeting scheduled for 11 am today was put off for 3 pm after UML clearly stated that it would obstruct the House. After the top leaders failed to garner consensus meanwhile, the meeting has been postponed for Tuesday.

The parliament meeting was scheduled to conduct a voting in the parliament to pick a new prime minister. Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deub is the only candidate running for the PM’s post.

The CPN-UML has been demanding the election body resume counting of votes in Bharatpur Metropolitan City (BMC) after it was stalled since the night of May 28 when two Maoist cadres tore up ballot papers at the counting venue. 

CPN (Maoist Centre) representatives had torn ballot papers when counting of BMC Ward 19 was underway. Later on Thursday it was found that as many as 90 ballot papers were torn when they were counted in the presence of election authorities and party representatives. 

CPN-UML’s mayoral candidate Devi Gyawali was leading Maoist Centre’s Renu Dahal, daughter of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, when the incident occurred resulting the halt of counting. 

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