Today’s meeting of the National Assembly (NA) has been postponed without taking up day’s agenda.
The meeting was put off after the lawmakers of the main opposition party protested, standing from their respective seats.
NA Chairperson Narayan Prasad Dahal urged the opposition parties to facilitate for running the Assembly business. “We have not been able to discuss on the policies and programmes presented by the government for coming fiscal year. We have not been able to carry out activities on the issues wanted by the people. A day to unveil budget is coming closer. The NA should be more responsible to end parliament deadlock and a time has come to think on it,” he mentioned.
NA Chairperson Dahal announced the postponement of today’s meeting after the opposition parties continued with the obstruction.
The NA will meet next at 11:30 am on May 26.
The meeting of the National Assembly scheduled for today has been postponed. Issuing a notice, the Parliament Secretariat has stated that the meeting scheduled for 13:15 this afternoon could not be held due to special reasons.
It may be noted that the main opposition Nepali Congress has been obstructing the House, demanding the formation of a parliamentary probe committee regarding the misappropriation of funds from financial cooperatives.
The National Assembly will meet next on May 24.
Today’s meeting of the National Assembly (NA) has been postponed due to obstruction by the CPN (UML).
The upper house of the Federal Parliament will meet next at 1:1 pm on August 7.
Soon after the beginning of today’s meeting, CPN (UML) lawmaker Bhairab Sundar Shrestha protested, demanding formation of a high-level probe committee to investigate in recent gold smuggling scam.
He said, “Investigation should be carried out in recent gold scam and its truth should be found out.”
Shrestha warned of not allowing the Parliament to run until the accused are brought to book by carrying out investigation, urging the government to bring out the fact and truth behind the scam.
The issue of smuggling of around 100 kg of gold to Nepal on July 19 should not be taken lightly, he added.
On the occasion, NA Chairperson Ganesh Prasad Timilsina said serious attention of the NA has been drawn on the recent gold scam and urged time and again to resolve the issue through discussion.
Chair Timilsina requested the UML lawmakers not to obstruct the House, but to put forth their views in the zero hour and special hour as arrangement of zero hour and special hour has been made to put their views before the people.
Chair Timilsina postponed today’s meeting after UML continued its protest despite his repeated request.
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