Cabinet recommends start of winter session of federal parliament from Dec 20

Setopati

Kathmandu, Dec 10

The government has recommended to convene the winter session of federal parliament from December 20.

A minister confirmed with Setopati that the Cabinet on Monday wrote to the president for calling the winter session also known as the bill session. The budget session had ended on September 19.

The post of speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) is vacant after Krishna Bahadur Mahara resigned following rape allegations by a federal parliament secretariat staffer.

Deputy Speaker Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe has been filling in as acting speaker and has already chaired the meeting to recommend office-bearers for the National Information Commission but bills have not been verified in lack of speaker.

Spokesperson at the federal parliament secretariat Roj Nath Pandey said the first meeting of the winter session may start the process for election of speaker. "The first agenda of HoR now is election of speaker," he stressed.

Published Date: 2019-12-10 11:10:00

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