KP Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister on Sunday evening moments before the scheduled voting on a no-confidence motion which he was certain to lose.

With his resignation, deliberations on the no-trust motion also concluded on Sunday and the proposal, registered in Parliament on July 13, was withdrawn.

Oli announced his resignation at the end of his 110-minute-long address to Parliament.

Earlier in the day, he had tendered his resignation to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and his Cabinet had recommended President Bhandari to invoke Article 305 of the Constitution of Nepal to “remove difficulties”.

In his address to the House , Oli insisted that he “is not the kind of prime minister who wished to cling on to power after losing majority in Parliament”. But he argued that the manner in which his government was toppled was “unprincipled and unwarranted”.