BIRATNAGAR, JANUARY 8
Province 1 Governor Parshuram Khapung appointed CPN-UML's Hikmat Kumar Karki as the chief minister of Province 1 this evening. Karki is the UML's Province 1 Parliamentary Party leader.
Khapung appointed Karki to the CM's post as per Article 168 (2) of the constitution.
Earlier, Karki had staked claim to the CM's post before the governor, along with signatures of majority of lawmakers of the provincial assembly.
The UML has 40 seats in the PA, CPN-Maoist Centre has 13, Rastriya Prajatantra Party six, and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal backed Karki's appointment as the chief minister with one seat.
The letter staking claim to the CM's post was submitted to Governor Khapung bearing signatures of Karki, CPN-Maoist Centre PP leader Indra Bahadur Angbo, RPP PP leader Bhakti Prasad Sitaula, and JSP-N's Nirmala Limbu.
Chief minister-elect Karki will be sworn in at 2:00pm tomorrow at the Office of the Province Governor.
A version of this article appears in the print on January 9, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.
