Rupandehi, January 1
Speaker of Provincial Assembly of Province 5 has called on political parties to choose a capital for the state through consensus.
Speaking at a programme in Rupandehi, he said that the general people want the lawmakers to settle the issue at the earliest.
“A special committee has been formed to resolve the issue,” he said, calling on assembly members to rise above the personal interests to find a way out. The assembly’s opposition leader Baladev Sharma Pokhrel of the Nepali Congress, who was speaking at the same programme, said that ‘Rupandehi’ could be the best location for the capital.
This comes as Federal Socialist Forum chief whip Santosh Pandey proposed that the seat of government be set up in Rupandehi and ‘Lumbini’ as the province’s name.
