[Archive] What was seen in the first parliamentary session after the midterms...

Due to the minority government in the House of Representatives, the ruling party's seats were empty, while the opposition's seats were packed. First-time MPs seemed to be looking for their seats.

kartik 14, 2082

Kantipur Reporter

[Archive] What was seen in the first parliamentary session after the midterms...

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The second parliamentary election after the restoration of democracy brought the ruling party into the opposition and the opposition into the ruling party. Communist Party MPs had the opportunity to sit on the ruling party's chair in the House of Representatives for the first time.

The eighth session of the House of Representatives, formed through the second parliamentary election after the change in 2046, began on November 28, 2051 at the Parliament Building in the Butterfly Garden in Singha Durbar. This was the first session after the formation of a communist-led government in the country's history through the mid-term elections on November 29, 2051.

Since the government was in a minority, the ruling party's seats were empty in the House of Representatives meeting, while the opposition's seats were full. The first-time MPs were seen looking for their seats. The second-time MPs of the Congress and UML were seen joking about the seat swapping.

In the first wave of the main opposition sitting in the meeting hall, the Congress MPs Sher Bahadur Deuba, Ram Chandra Poudel and Ram Hari Joshi were sitting in the meeting hall. The second wave included Congress MPs Ram Sharan Mahat, Chakra Bastola, Purna Bahadur Khadka and Bimalendra Nidhi. The last wave, which was considered important in the parliamentary meeting room, included Congress MPs Pradeep Giri, Dhundiraj Shastri, Shailaja Acharya and Rastriya Prajatantra Party MP Pashupati Shamsher Rana. [Archive] What was seen in the first parliamentary session after the midterms...

The last wave of the ruling party included UML MPs Amrit Kumar Bohara, Jagruti Prasad Bhetwal and Hemraj Rai. UML MPs Surendra Phumbo, Bidya Bhandari, Ramnath Dhakal, Ganga Chaudhary and Congress MPs Homraj Dahal and Kamala Pant entered parliament as the latest generation of young MPs.

Outgoing Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala left the parliament after taking oath in the parliament. The country went to mid-term elections due to internal strife in the Congress. The ruling party's Congress party had joined the opposition. RPP leaders and former prime ministers of the Panchayat period, Surya Bahadur Thapa and Lokendra Bahadur Chand, also entered parliament for the first time after the 2046 change. RPP MPs were sitting six waves ahead of the last wave of opposition members.

In the 2048 election, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party was divided into the Thapa and Chand groups. At that time, the Chand group won two seats and the Thapa group won one seat as an MP. In the mid-term, both RPPs contested the election as a single party and won 20 seats. In 2048, RPP MPs sat where the United Janamorcha MPs sat. Nepal Sadbhavana Party and Nepal Mazdoor Kisan Party MPs sat in the middle of the opposition group. [Archive] What was seen in the first parliamentary session after the midterms...

This time, MPs who looked different in terms of lifestyle and attire were not present in parliament. Earlier, Barman Budha of the United People's Front, who wears a backpack, and Shankar Pandey of the Nepali Congress, who walks barefoot and leads a religious and simple lifestyle, and Maiyadevi Shrestha, were not in Parliament.

Senior MP Bal Bahadur Rai administered the oath of secrecy to the newly elected MPs of the House of Representatives as the acting Speaker. Minister of State for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Subash Chandra Nembang presented four ordinances in the meeting. The letter received from the palace regarding the formation of the new cabinet was read out in the meeting of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly.

No party was able to win the required number of MPs to form the government in the mid-term elections. Therefore, UML Chairman Manmohan Adhikari, who became the largest party in Parliament by winning 88 seats, was appointed as the Prime Minister. The Nepali Congress had won 83 seats in the mid-term elections.

Focusing on the first session of the House of Representatives formed after the mid-term elections and its background, Kantipur Daily published news from different angles under the title 'Glimpses of the first day inside the Parliament, the eighth session of the Parliament begins' on 29 Mangsir 2051. 

Presentation: Rishiram Paudyal 

Kantipur

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