February 3, Kathmandu : Jhala Nath Khanal, the Chairman of the leftist Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) was announced the new prime minister of Nepal. After out casting the political dead lock of more than seven months, Khanal is the majority of common understanding of Nepal’s Politics.
Overcoming the political crisis, it was in the 17th time when Nepalese Members of Parliament came to a common understand and resolved the crisis of giving the nation a new leadership. Khanal scored 368 votes in the 601-member parliament where his competition got, Ram Chandra Poudel of the Nepali Congress, got 122 votes and Bijay Kumar Gachhedar of Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (Democratic) got 67 votes.
Recently, Jhala Nathi Khanal came in controversy when one of the former UML supporter Devi Prasad Regmi of Bharaul-5, Sunsari, slapped Khanal in his left cheek in Itahari reasoning political chaos and irresponsible behavior of leaders toward their Country.