The main political parties reached a written agreement to appoint Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi as the head of the Interim Election Council of Ministers. And on the same day, March 13, the Council of Ministers, as per Interim Constitution Article 158, submitted a 25-point Ordinance to remove constitutional hurdles and difficulties, under which Regmi took an oath office and secrecy from the President. On March 14, Madhav Prasad Ghimire and Hari Prasad Neupane along with Regmi took oath of office as Home Minister and Law Minster respectively. The first meeting of the Council of Ministers decided to fix the election date soon after consultation with the Election Commission. With this decision of the government, hope for the election was revived. However, complexities and challenges of election remained. The proposal to appoint the Chief Justice to the head of government had caused dissatisfaction within Nepali Congress and UML, and CPN (M) and smaller parties had opposed from the beginning. Similarly, Nepal Bar Association and civil society had continuously opposed this proposal. Therefore, the Regmi-led government began to face criticism from all sides immediately after its formation. Along with the criticism and protest programmes and failure to set an election date, the election slated for April-May became uncertain.

On March 21, CPN (M) decided to boycott the election if it is held by maintaining the status quo. Its chairperson Mohan Vaidya put forward a 4-point demanding dismissal of Regmi-led government and warned of a stir. “Elections were held even during the Panchayat rule, but it did not hold any meaning. The present election announcement is also a trick. If it is not corrected, we will boycott,” Vaidya said at the press conference releasing the decision of a week-long politburo meeting at the party office in Buddhanagar. He further said, “If our demands are not met, we will organise a powerful struggle programme centred on April 6. Almost immediately on March 24, CPN (M) along with smaller parties announced the second-phase of protest programmes, which announced raising awareness, mobilisation, sit-ins, and gheraos from March 28 to April 7. This created further uncertainties about the election.