Nepal fails to elect PM for 15th time

Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Poudel has failed to get elected as the prime minister in the 15th round of election conducted in the legislature parliament yesterday.
Poudel secured 96 votes while 2 votes were cast against him. 31 lawmakers went for 'no vote' option in the ballot paper. Altogether 129 lawmakers participated in the voting.
Meanwhile, the Business Advisory Council has set the next round of PM elections for November 4 at 3 pm.
The House committee announced the new schedule even before the voting took place as it was certain that Poudel would get voted out this time too.
The NC has turned down numerous calls from the UCPN (Maoist) and CPN (UML), which together form a majority in the House, to quit the 'futile' election and sit for dialogue for a government of national unity.
The Supreme Court yesterday set November 10 as the date for final verdict on a case that seeks to declare the sole candidate for the prime minister Ram Chandra Poudel elected to the executive post.
Meanwhile, a division bench of justices Kalyan Shrestha and Girish Chandra Lal decided to pass the final verdict on the writ filed by a group of lawyers.
The bench also ordered the petitioners and the government attorneys to present written arguments within a week.