KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala January 28 became the favourite to be Nepal‘s new prime minister after he was elected the leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party defeating his competitor Sher Bahadur Deuba, a three-time former prime minister.
Nepali Congress emerged the largest party in the November elections with 196 seats in the 601- member Constituent Assembly that also acts as the parliament. Nepal’s interim constitution mandates for a national consensus government failing which a majority government will be formed
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