Former speaker Daman Nath Dhungana has passed away.
He breathed his last at around two Sunday afternoon while undergoing treatment at Frontline Hospital in Old Baneshwore, according to Suraj Bhattarai, a relative. He was unwell for around a month.
Dhungana was the House speaker after the first general election following restoration of democracy in 1990. He was elected from Kathmandu-2 in that general election on a Nepali Congress (NC) ticket.
Dhungana, who remained separate from the grand old party for some years, had contested the general election in 2017 from Bhaktapur-2 but lost the election to Mahesh Basnet of CPN-UML.