State 1: Rai is to resign, Acharya is to be Chief Minister

BIRATNAGAR: AUGUST 26 – State 1 Chief Minister Sherdhan Rai is set to resign today. Sources close to Rai said that he was about to resign after a meeting of the parliamentary parties.

Rai is about to resign to make Bhim Acharya, who left Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Chief Minister. For this, a meeting of the UML parliamentary party has been called for 11 am. A lawmaker said that Chief Minister Rai had resigned from the post of parliamentary party leader and was preparing to elect Bhim Acharya as the party leader. The same meeting is preparing to elect Bhim Acharya as the party leader.