Citing serious differences with the government, all members of the National Planning Commission (NPC), including its vice-chairman Deependra Bahadur Kshetry, have resigned from their posts.

Along with Kshetry, other three members of NPC Janak Raj Shah, Dr Shiba Kumar Rai, and Dr Abdur Rahim Mikrani announced their resignation at a press conference at NPC´s office.

The resignations came a day after the UCPN (Maoist) leaders, at the High Level Political Committee meeting, agreed to the removal of political appointees in several government bodies.