KATHMANDU: Ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has asked Speaker of the Federal Parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara, alleged of sexual assault and harassment, to step down immediately as a Speaker and lawmaker.

A meeting of the NCP secretariat held at the Prime Minister K P Oli’s official residence at Baluwatar asked Mahara to quit from his post on moral grounds saying that it would be a ‘wise decision’ for him to do so.

Mahara was elected from Dang constituency-2 under the first-past-the-post electoral system to the Federal Parliament.