Pushpa Kamal Dahal may be elected Nepal PM tomorrow

Parliament secretariat sources said the House will initiate the process that may be completed the same day. Those meeting President Bhandari include outgoing Prime Minister K P Oli, his likely successor Dahal, Nepali congress chief Sher Bahadur Deuba, Kamal Thapa of Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal and Bijay Gachedar of Forun-Loktantrik.

The Nepali congress — the biggest party in the House, which entered into an alliance with the Maoists — has backed Dahal as the Prime Ministerial candidate and with Madhesi groups and others falling in line, Dahal securing a comfortable majority in athe House with an effective strength of 598 is a foregone conclusion.

K P Oli, who headed the left dominated alliance for nine months beginning October last year, resigned last week after Maoist Party pulled out of the alliance and moved a no confidence motion against him in the House.