Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has failed to secure a vote of confidence in the country’s House of Representatives.

• This means that Dahal – more famous as ‘Prachanda’ – will lose his position as prime minister.
• He got only 63 votes in the 275-member House. As many as 194 legislators voted against him. A single member abstained.
• This floor test was necessitated after the Communist Party of Nepal — Unified Marxist-Leninist withdrew its support to Dahal’s government and left to form an alliance with the Nepali Congress.