
Moving out and paving way to a new government .. is what Nepal’s interim prime minister and the country’s peace architect is doing. Declaring that he is given up the prime minister’s post during an assembly in Kathmandu. Koirala’s decision to step down came from the mounting criticisms from the Maoists that the veteran politician was unwilling to hand power to them even when his party lost the elections in April. At 83, he became prime minister and after weeks of protests, it forced the then King to end his brief rule and hand power to the political parties.