Nepal’s Prime Minister, Khadga Prasad Oli, has resigned from his post just minutes before facing a no confidence vote he was expected to lose. A change in government is nothing new in Nepal, with Oli the eighth prime minister in the past 10 years.

Oli,  was forced to quitafter allies of his multi-party coalition deserted the government, accusing him of not honouring power sharing deals that helped install him as prime minister nine months ago.

• Oli swept to power in October 2015, but has faced fierce criticism over his handling of protests in the impoverished quake-hit nation.

• Oli had come under fire this month after the Maoist party, made of former communist rebels, accused the prime minster’s government of failing to take proper legislative action in favor of the Maoist cadres facing trials for wartime crimes.

• This is the Nepal ‘s 23rd government to fall since a multi-party democracy began in 1990 after bloody protests, and the political tumult has weighed on business confidence.

About Khadga Prasad Oli

 HE was Born in eastern Nepal on February 22, 1952, Oli  became a member of the Nepal Communist Party in 1970 after being influenced by local communist leaders as a teenager.

He spent 14 years in jail during the royal regime’s crackdown on communists, but his politics had veered to the right in the last two decades.