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KATHMANDU - Nepal’s ruling coalition was in turmoil on Saturday after the prime minister said he planned to support a presidential candidate from an opposition party, a decision that prompted the deputy prime minister and three other ministers to resign.
Mr Dahal said on Friday he would support Mr Ram Chandra Paudel from the opposition Nepali Congress party in next month’s presidential election, instead of the candidate of his coalition partner, the Communist Unified Marxist Leninist party. On Saturday, Mr Rajendra Lingden, the deputy prime minister who was also minister for energy, water resources and irrigation, resigned in protest, along with the ministers for urban development and legal matters, while a junior minister assisting Mr Lingden also quit.
Mr Dahal’s office confirmed the four ministers had resigned, but did not say whether the resignations had been accepted.
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