None is above constitution: CM Thapa

BIRATNAGAR: Chief Minister of Koshi State, Uddhav Thapa, said none is above the constitution.

The constitutional right to vote can not be seized, he added.

CM Thapa made such a remark after securing vote of confidence in the State Assembly on Monday.

Talking briefly to media persons following the confidence vote, he argued that the state government secured a confidence vote as per the constitution.

He further said Province Assembly member Ishrail Mansuri who ran the meeting as Assembly Chair voted for the motion as an exercise of his constitutional rights.

Earlier, Vice Chair of the Assembly Sirjana Danuwar had assigned Mansuri to conduct Assembly meeting as Chair, to which, CM Thapa commented a conspiracy hatched by major opposition, CPN UML. CM Thapa further believed the government would get full shape and gain pace.