Kathmandu, 28 October: Bagmati Province Chief Minister Ashtalakshmi Shakya has tendered her resignation to Province Chief Yadav Sharma paving the way to constitute the new provincial government. Shortly after addressing the state assembly meeting on Wednesday, she reached the office of the Province Chief and submitted her resignation. Shakya, who was appointed as the Chief Minister by a single majority when the CPN-UML had 56 MPs in the 109-member state assembly, Shakya fell into the minority after the formation of the CPN-Unified Socialist Party following the split of the party. At present, UML has only 43 MPs in the state assembly. Shakya’s resignation has paved the way for the formation of another government in Bagmati. A coalition of the Nepali Congress, the CPN-Maoist Center, the CPN-US and the Janata Samajwadi Party is preparing to form another government in Bagmati. They have also decided to make Rajendra Pandey, the leader of the CPN (US) parliamentary party, the chief minister. Indra Bahadur Baniya, leader of the Nepali Congress Bagmati Province Parliamentary Party, said that the alliance would submit its claim to the chief minister within the time given by the state chief to form another government. People’s News Monitoring Service