Ram Bahadur Thapa loses National Assembly membership, ministership
The National Assembly Secretariat says Ram Bahadur Thapa, who was elected to the assembly representing the CPN-Maoist Centre in 2017, has lost his membership as the party that he represented removed him.
KATHMANDU, May 20: Dr Khim Lal Devkota of the opposition alliance has secured victory in the National Assembly be-election held for a vacant post in Bagmati Province. Dr Devkota secured a total of 5,088 weightage of votes, defeating his nearest rival Ram Bahadur Thapa "Badal", who served as the home minister in the KP Oli-led cabinet.
KATHMANDU, May 20: CPN-UML leader and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal has lost the National Assembly by-election.
Thapa suffered the loss to Dr Khim Lal Devkota, the candidate fielded by an opposition alliance, in the by-election for the vacant post of National Assembly member from Bagmati Province, held on Thursday.
According to the final vote-count, Badal got 4014 votes while Khimlal got 5088 votes.
CPN (UML) Chairperson and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday urged the party members to cast vote for Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal in the May 20 election for the National Assembly seat in Bagmati Province.
MAKWANPUR, May 7: Central member of the CPN (UML) and Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa today said that he fielded his candidacy for a vacant post of member in the National Assembly (upper house) as per party’s direction. “I filed my candidacy for the post for the protection of the constitution and economic prosperity,” he said while talking to media-persons on his way to Kathmandu, the central capital of the country, after filing his candidacy for the post.
On the occasion, he viewed that party cadres should be pro-people instead of being pro-leaders while making party organisation disciplined and respectable.
Stating that the federal government has mobilised security agencies in all seven provinces to maintain peace and security, he said that the provincial government should also mobilise its resources and provide treatment against Covid-19.
Likewise, Dr Khim Lal Devkota, a common candidate for the post from Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre), has said that the filing of his candidacy for the post aims to bring the constitution on track.
He stressed the need for discipline among political parties to make republic live and for making role of province more pro people, transparent and responsible.
Krishna Bahadur Tamang, another candidate for the post from the Nepal Workers Peasants Party, expressed his commitment to work for the welfare of people beyond personal vested interest while abiding by the constitution, laws and acts.
KATHMANDU, May 7: The ruling CPN-UML has fielded Home Minister and party leader Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ for the upcoming by-elections for a vacant seat in the National Assembly.
An informal meeting of UML’s Standing Committee on Thursday picked him as the candidate for the seat in the upper house from Bagmati Province.
The EC is holding by-polls to elect legislators in a vacant seat in the upper house of parliament that fell vacant after the former lawmaker Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’, who was elected from the CPN (Maoist Center), was suspended as the member of parliament after he joined the ruling CPN-UML.
Opposition alliance including the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) and ruling UML’s Nepal-Khanal faction has fielded Dr Khimlal Devkota.
Minister Thapa will contest election on UML’s symbol’ while Devkota will be contesting on the election symbol of Maoist party.
Thapa and Devkota reached Bagmati Province capital, Hetauda on Thursday and registered their candidacy.
The by-polls have been slated for May 20. The members of the province assembly and the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of rural municipalities, mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities will cast their votes. A total of 348 voters, including 110 province assembly members and 238 chiefs and deputy chiefs of local levels are eligible to vote in the by-polls in Bagmati Province.
Provincial lawmakers and local government officials in the Bagmati province who are close to the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led faction of the ruling CPN-UML are highly likely to vote against the party's official candidate Ram Bahadur Thapa in the National Assembly by-election to be held on May 20.
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).
