Kathmandu, Jan. 8 -- With mounting questions over his political affiliation, Nepal's Minister for Energy, Physical Infrastructure and Urban Development, Kulman Ghising has resigned from his post.

Inducted in the "interim neutral government" in September last year after the Gen-Z protest, Ghising was the third most powerful minister on board the interim Sushila Karki's council of ministers.

The former bureaucrat who led the Nepal Electricity Authority and ended the "loadshedding" in the Himalayan Nation is regarded as the "power man" of the cabinet. But, his political affiliation was questioned by the interim Prime Minister herself as he had been operating a political party from shadow.

Ghising, last December had signed a merger agreeme...