CPN lawmaker Agni Sapkota will be elected speaker unanimously after no other party contested for the post.
Sapkota was the only candidate to file nomination as Nepali Congress (NC), Socialist Party Nepal and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJP)—the other parties to be represented in the House—did not field candidate.
Secretary in the House of Representatives (HoR) Gopal Nath Yogi confirmed with Setopati that CPN is the only party to field candidate for the post of speaker.
The parliament secretariat had allotted the time of 11 am to 2 pm on Tuesday to file nominations for the election.
The House meeting has been called for January 26 for voting in the election. There will be no voting on that day now that Sapkota is the only candidate contesting for the post.
Senior-most HoR member Mahantha Thakur, who has been chairing the House meeting since resignation of Deputy Speaker Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe on Monday, will declare Sapkota elected unanimously after Subas Chandra Nembang who proposed Sapkota's candidacy, and Dev Gurung, Onsari Gharti Magar and Laxman Lal Karna who supported the candidacy speak on January 26.
Sapkota has been accused of abduction and murder of chairman of the management committee of Sri Krishna Secondary School of Tapcha, Kavre Arjun Bahadur Lama during the Maoist insurgency.
Lama was murdered after abduction on April 29, 2005. The SC will hear the murder case and two other petitions against Sapkota on February 5.
