Kathmandu, May 19: The House of Representatives (HoR) is to meet at 2.00pm today. Earlier, the meeting was scheduled for 11.00am today.
HoR Secretary-General Padma Prasad Pandeya said that the meeting has been postponed as it could not convene at the stipulated time due to a special reason.
Although the political parties are agreed on the topic of constituting a parliamentary investigation committee on the embezzlement of the cooperatives’ amount, the terms of reference (TOR) of the committee has not been finalized yet.
The main opposition party, Nepali Congress, has been obstructing the parliament business, raising this topic.
The parties are in talks at present regarding finalizing the TOR of the investigation committee.
A meeting of the opposition parties that took place today itself has decided to allow the parliament to proceed ahead with its proceedings only after finalizing the parliamentary investigation committee’s TOR.
Nepali Congress Chief Whip Ramesh Lekhak said the parliamentary investigation committee would be formed and the House proceedings would be moved ahead only after finalizing the committee’s TOR.
NA session postponed till 3.15 pm
A meeting of the National Assembly (NA) scheduled for 1:15 pm today has been put off by two hours. The Federal Parliament Secretariat informed about this.
According to Secretariat assistant spokesperson, Dasharath Dhamala, the session has been rescheduled for 3:15 today.
The meeting was put off as the meeting between the ruling parties and the major opposition Nepali Congress (NC) to finalize a mandate for forming a parliamentary committee to probe the alleged misappropriation of the cooperative funds is underway.
Prior to this, the lower house session was put off for 2:00 pm today.
