KATHMANDU: The meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) has commenced after a delay. Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane is currently addressing the parliament.
KATHMANDU, May 10: The main opposition party, Nepali Congress (NC), has decided to allow Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane to address parliament.
KATHMANDU, May 10: The main opposition party, Nepali Congress (NC), has decided to allow Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane to address parliament.
KATHMANDU, Aug 8: The primary opposition party UML has obstructed today's House of Representatives meeting.
After Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha gave his answer in the meeting, the opposition party raised slogans stating that the minister didn't give an answer on th
KATHMANDU, September 8: The tenth session of both the houses of the federal parliament is commencing from today. President Bidya Devi Bhandari has summoned the meeting of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly for 4:00 pm Wednesday on the recommendation of the Government of Nepal.
The agenda of the session of the House will include the bill to replace the ordinance budget, the long-pending civil service bill, the citizenship bill and various ordinances issued in the past.
In the House of Representatives meeting today the Speaker will read out the letter received from the President, the members to preside over the parliament meeting during the absence of the Speaker will be nominated and the Home Minister Balkrishna Khand will table the Ordinance Related to Political Parties (Second Amendment), 2078 BS.
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba had got the vote of confidence from the last session of parliament.
The ninth session of the House ended on August 16.
KATHMANDU, May 20: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an order to scrap the appointment of seven ministers in the KP Sharma Oli-led Cabinet.
Responding to a writ petition filed against the appointment of seven ministers, who are not the members of the federal parliament, a single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JBR, on Thursday, invalidated the appointment of the ministers including Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa as per Article 78 of the constitution.
Prime Minister Oli appointed seven ministers on May 14 after he was reappointed as the Prime Minister on May 13.
With this, Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, Industry Minister Lekhraj Bhatta, Energy Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Urban Development Minister Prabhu Shah, Drinking Water Minister Mani Thapa, Labor Minister Gauri Shankar Chaudhary and Sports Minister Dawa Lama have been relieved of the member of Cabinet.
Advocates duo Kapil Dev Dhakal and Rabiraj Thapa filed the writ petition demanding to scrap their appointment.
KATHMANDU, April 18: With Chairman of National Assembly (NA), Ganesh Timilsina deciding to relieve Ram Bahadur Thapa, who is also the Ministers for Home Affairs (MoHA), as the member of the upper house of parliament, Thapa has lost the membership of the NA.
Following Timilsina’s decision, the Federal Parliament Secretariat published a notice that Thapa’s position of lawmaker remains vacant, on Sunday.
With this, Thapa also lost his ministerial position. He can be reappointed by PM KP Sharma Oli and remain as the minister for the next six months despite losing the membership of parliament. Article 78 of the Constitution of Nepal states that one who is not a member of federal parliament can be appointed as the minister, however, is required to obtain the membership of parliament within six months from the date of taking an oath.
The CPN (Maoist Center) had suspended Thapa as the lawmaker of the upper house as he joined the KP Oli-led CPN-UML following the March 7 order of the Supreme Court to invalidate the merger between the UML and Maoist to the Nepal Communist Party. The CPN (MC) registered a letter to the federal parliament secretariat on April 9 sharing the party’s decision.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had earlier reappointed the former Maoist lawmakers – Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatta, Prabhu Sah and Gaurishankar Chaudhary—after they were suspended as the members of the House of Representatives (HoR).
