Man Mohan Adhikari cabinet

1994 Adhikari cabinet

Cabinet of Nepal
November 1994–September 1995
Date formed30 November 1994
Date dissolved12 September 1995
People and organisations
MonarchKing Birendra
Prime MinisterMan Mohan Adhikari
Deputy Prime MinisterMadhav Kumar Nepal
Total no. of members15 appointments
Member partyCPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Status in legislatureMinority in Pratinidhi Sabha
88 / 205 (43%)
Opposition partyNepali Congress
Opposition leaderGirija Prasad Koirala
History
Election1994 general election
Legislature term3rd House of Representatives
PredecessorFirst G.P. Koirala cabinet
SuccessorFirst Deuba cabinet

On November 30, 1994, following the 1994 parliamentary election, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) formed a minority government led by Man Mohan Adhikari.[1] Despite the Nepali Congress securing more popular votes than the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), the latter secured 88 seats to the former's 83. Neither party was successful in forming a coalition to hold a majority of the 205 seats. After failed coalition negotiations, Adhikari became Prime Minister of a minority government, acquiring the support of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the Nepal Sadbhawana Party.[2]

Adhikari only served as the Prime Minister of Nepal for nine months and was the first democratically elected prime minister from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). During his time in office, then chief of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz rejected funding the Arun III hydro-electric project[3] Also, the Adhikari government promoted programs such as the build-your-own-village-program.[4] Prime Minister Adhikari also enhanced the relationship with Mongolia.[citation needed]

In June 1995, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the Nepal Sadbhawana Party, who helped to form a minority government supported the Nepali Congress's call for a vote of no-confidence in Adhikari's government in a special session of the House of Representatives. Adhikari attempted to dissolve parliament and call elections in an attempt to replicate the circumstances under which he assumed office in 1994. But a Supreme Court challenge led by the Congress saw this move deemed unconstitutional and the parliament was restored. The vote of no-confidence proceeded successfully. Elections in 1995 saw Adhikari's government voted out of office and made Nepali Congress's Sher Bahadur Deuba the next Prime Minister of Nepal.[5]

  1. ^ "Nepal Home Page". Archived from the original on 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
  2. ^ Whelpton, John, A History of Nepal, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 192-193.
  3. ^ Deutscher Bundestag. "Drucksache 13/2285 vom 08.09.1995" (in German). Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  4. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica: Man Mohan Adhikari
  5. ^ Whelpton, John, A History of Nepal, Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 193-195.