While Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal Prachanda was taking the vote of confidence, it was found that 15 MPs were absent from the House of Representatives on Friday.

A total of 17 MPs did not participate in the voting.
Prem Suwal, the only MP of Nemkipa, remained neutral.

CPN (UML) suspended MP Top Bahadur Rayamajhi is in jail while RAPRAPA MP Geeta Basnet is also suspended.Speaker Devraj Ghimire did not participate in the voting.According to sources, Nepali Congress MPs Ambika Basnet, DurlabhThapa Chhetri, and Manorama Sherchan did not participate in the voting.

Similarly, UML’s Ashma Kumari Chaudhary, Ishwari Gharti, Basant Kumar Nemwang, Suryakumari Shrestha, and Harkamaya Bishwakarma did not participate in the voting.
Likewise, Devendra Poudel of the Maoist Center also did not participate in Friday’s meeting.

Ranjita Shrestha of nagarik unmukti party, Independent MP Yogendra Mandal, Sushila Shrestha of Janata Samajwadi Party (led by Ashok Rai) and Binita Kumari Singh of Janmat Party were also not present dyring the voting.

In the 275-member House of Representatives, 63 votes were cast in favor of Prime Minister Dahal and 194 votes were cast against.