Ruling Party Suspends Premier’s Membership
From Times Wire Reports
NEPAL
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Nepal’s ruling party suspended the prime minister as a member to punish him for dissolving the parliament and calling fresh elections.
In another protest against the decision of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and King Gyanendra, three senior Cabinet ministers quit. Deuba remains prime minister until the Nov. 13 elections.
Deuba had asked the king to call elections after a faction of the ruling Nepali Congress Party declared its opposition to a plan to extend the nation’s 6-month-old emergency rule.
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