The winter session of the federal parliament has started at four Wednesday afternoon. Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Krishna Bahadur Mahara started the meeting reading the letter of President Bidya Devi Bhandari.
The Nepal's constitution has conferred the right to call and end the federal parliament session to the president on the recommendation of the government. The government on December 18 had written to the President's Office recommending President Bhandari to call the winter session of the parliament at four in the afternoon on December 26.
The budget session of the parliament had ended on September 27.
The winter session of the parliament is also considered as the ‘bill session’ and it will spend its entire duration on the discussions of drafts of bills and their endorsements.
This session is viewed as of important one as it is mandated to amend or replace laws inconsistent with the constitution, to the extent of such inconsistency. As per the constitutional provision, laws inconsistent with the constitution either need to be amended or replaced by new ones within coming March 5, 2019 which marks the completion of one year of the first meeting of the federal parliament.
