Kathmandu, May 16: Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives would be held behand schedule.
The meeting is going to be delayed than the slated time after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ requested Speaker Devraj Ghimire to postpone the meeting as initiatives were underway to forge consensus with the Nepali Congress, the main opposition party, to remove the parliament deadlock, said Ghimire’s Press Coordinator Shekhar Adhikari.
Earlier, today’s HoR meeting was called for 11:00am. The NC has been obstructing the parliament proceedings, demanding formation of a parliamentary committee for impartial investigation on cooperative fraud scam.
The Prime Minister shared that an environment to allow Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Rabi Lamichhane, to speak in today’s meeting is being created.
Speaker Ghimire held discussions with the chief whips and the whips of major political parties as well as with Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs at federal parliament building, New Baneshwor, to end deadlock.
House of Representatives to meet at 4.00pm today
The meeting of the House of Representatives is taking place at 4.00 pm today. The meeting scheduled for 11.00 am before this has been postponed as efforts are underway to forge consensus for removing the House deadlock.
The meeting has been deferred than the slated time after Speaker Devraj Ghimire held telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, said Ghimire’s Press Coordinator Shekhar Adhikari.
The Prime Minister had urged the Speaker to postpone the meeting, citing that initiatives were on to forge consensus with the main opposition party, the Nepali Congress.
The Nepali Congress has been obstructing the parliament’s proceedings, demanding the formation of a parliamentary committee to carry out impartial investigation alleging of the involvement of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane in the misappropriation of the cooperatives funds.
