Posted by: Makar Tantra May 9, 2006
Girija - biography
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"He was elected Prime Minister in Nepal's first election following the Jana Aandolan. He was forced to dissolve parliament and call for elections in November 1994, because the Nepali Congress was unable to continue a coalition government. This led to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist)-led coalition coming to power." Above statement is not true. He was not forced to dissolved the parliament. Instead, he opted to dissolve the parliament following lack of co-operation from some MPs within his own party because they had some kind of dispute. Also, it was not coalition government when he dissolved parliament. There was a comfortable majority of NC with 113 seats out of 205 seats in the parliament.
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