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The Nepali Congress Party on Sunday expelled Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba from the party for three years for dissolving the Parliament without consulting it.
"The party's disciplinary committee has expelled Prime Minister Deuba for three years and asked all the ministers belonging to the Nepali Congress to quit the ministry as the government headed by Deuba is no longer a Nepali Congress government," Nepali Congress Party deputy general secretary Govinda Raj Joshi said.
The expulsion came after Deuba last week dissolved Parliament and called elections two years early without consulting his partymen.
Deuba will continue to stay on as caretaker prime minister until polls on November 13.
Joshi also ruled out a split in the party after Deuba's expulsion.
"The Nepali Congress will remain united whoever comes or goes from the party," he said.
He said the party would contest the polls as 'it is a democratic party'.
But the election must be free and fair and security must be provided for the voters, he said.
Immediately after his expulsion, Deuba hit back at the Nepali Congress, saying his decision to dissolve the Parliament and call elections two years ahead of schedule was constitutional and the party had nothing to do with it.
"My decision was in line with the Constitution and the party has nothing to do with it. The decision by the party president (Girija Prasad) Koirala was wrong," he said.
"Koirala had been prime minister three times and he did not achieve anything to solve the Maoist problem. He has not allowed me to do anything while I was in power," he said.
"I will call the general convention of the party soon to prove that the party is with me," he said, adding general elections would be held on time and would be free and impartial.
Deuba on Wednesday had asked King Gyanendra to dissolve the 205-member house of parliament and announce polls for November 13, two years before parliament's term was due to end in 2004.
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