Kathmandu, July 25
The meeting of Parliament has been adjourned till next week as the government failed to provide the legislative body with sufficient business.
While Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is in last-minute preparations to expand his eight-member Cabinet, around five dozen bills are pending in the House due to the government’s reluctance to move them ahead. Many of them have not been moved ahead as there are no ministers at concerned ministries.
Most of the bills are related to the implementation of constitution promulgated in September 2015.
The Election Commission is urging the government to finalise laws related to all kinds of elections, but the government is yet to register bills on elections of President, Vice-President and National Assembly (Upper House).
The Commission and the Parliament Secretariat have been warning that the government cannot meet the deadline of January next year to conduct all elections so as to ensure smooth implementation of the new constitution.
As Nepal will celebrate great and long festivals of Dashain and Tihar in September-October, the government has a very short time to accomplish the tasks, says Parliament Secretariat spokesperson Bharat Raj Gautam.
