Kathmandu: New Prime Minister Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba on Sunday comfortably won the selection of self-confidence in a lower parliamentary house.
Deuba, the head of the 75-year-old Nepal congress, secured 165 votes in the House of Representatives 275, The Himalaya Times reported.
A total of 249 members of parliament participated in the electoral process and 83 of them voted against Deuba while a member of parliament remained neutral, he said.
A total of 136 votes needed for Deuba to win parliamentary trust.
Deuba took office oath and confidentiality on July 13 for the fifth record time, a day after a constitutional bench five members of the Supreme Court led by Cholendra Judge Shumsher Shumsher Rana returned the suspendous council for the second time in five months.
, The house down is not constitutionally dissolved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari for the second time in five months on May 22 on the recommendation then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oil.
Deuba won the vote on the first day of the restored house session.
The President has summoned the second meeting of parliamentary houses on Sunday.
PM Narendra Modi congratulated the newly appointed Nepal leader.