"I am ready to quit the post within a minute of the parties reaching an agreement on the alternative," the prime minister said during an interaction with the locals at Jhor Mahankal village on the outskirts of Kathmandu on Wednesday.[break]
According to the prime minister´s secretariat at Baluwatar, the prime minister reached to the village as part of his campaign to hold similar interactions directly with villagers once in a month.
He told the villagers that he had made up his mind to step down on May 27, the day when the term of the Constituent Assembly (CA) expired. But his plan couldn´t materialize as the political parties failed to promulgate the new constitution.
"I have no interest at all to cling to the post, but I can´t quit leaving behind a void," he explained. Bhattarai termed the opposition parties´ ranting for his resignation without first coming up with an alternative as “childish behavior”.
He accused the opposition parties Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML of causing the CA´s dissolution. "They opposed the extension of the CA´s tenure earlier and now they are demanding reinstatement of the CA. It is contradictory," he said.
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