Former minister of state for finance Bharat Kumar Shah is set to chair the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the parliament.
The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has decided to make Shah the party's candidate for the post. Shah will be the only candidate for the post as per the agreement among the parties. Nominations for chairmen of the parliamentary committees will be filed Thursday.
He has been directly elected to the parliament thrice in the past four elections. He was minister of state for finance in the Sher Bahadur Deuba government in 2001.
Shah started politics from the party's student wing Nepal Students Union in 1970. He completed Masters in Business Administration in 1981 from the Tribhuvan University.
The main opposition party leads the PAC in parliamentary practice. But Ram Krishna Yadav of NC had chaired the PAC when the party was a coalition partner in the Madhav Kumar Nepal government after the first Constituent Assembly election.
Similarly, Dor Prasad Upadhyay of the then CPN (Maoist Center) had chaired the committee even as Maoist Center remained in every government formed after the Sushil Koirala government.
