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House of Representatives to elect Speaker on Saturday

Kathmandu, March 6

Nepal’s lower House will elect its Speaker on March 10, senior-most member of the House of Representatives Mahanta Thakur says.

A meeting of the lower House on Tuesday decided to hold the election on Saturday. Thakur has also instructed the Parliament Secretariat to prepare a schedule for the election process. The House of Representatives shall meet at 1:00 pm on March 10 to begin the electoral process.

Meanwhile, the House also formed the ‘House of Representatives Rules Draft Committee’. The 13-member committee comprises MPs Krishnabhakta Pokhrel, Juli Kumari Mahato, Dilendra Prasad Badu, Dev Prasad Gurung, Prem Suwal and Brijesh Kumar Gupta.

Meen Bahadur BK, Dr Minendra Rijal, Rabindra Adhikari, Rekha Sharma, Laxmanlal Karna, Dr Binda Pandey and Bimal Prasad Sriwastav are the other members of the committee.

The committee has been given a deadline of one month to prepare the draft regulations.

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