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Parliament meeting postponed; to sit again on Sunday



KATHMANDU: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has postponed the meeting of Wednesday’s House of Representatives (HoR).

The next meeting has been scheduled for Sunday.

During today’s meeting, the main opposition CPN-UML continued its protest against the Speaker and 14 defecting lawmakers including Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhala Nath Khanal.

As soon as the HoR meeting started, the main opposition party lawmakers started chanting slogans and stood in protest.

After the obstruction at a meeting held at the Federal Parliament Building in New Baneshwor, Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota urged the opposition party to create an environment conducive to running the parliament.

However, the opposition lawmakers continued to obstruct shouting slogans against the Speaker.

Publish Date : 22 December 2021 13:47 PM

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