The fifth session of the Lumbini State Assembly has been called for the 16th of December. The cabinet meeting held on Monday of the state government decided to recommend the state chief Krishna Bahadur Gharti for convening the state assembly session on January 16.

The annual session of Lumbini region ended on August 31st. Three and a half months after the end of the annual session, the government is going to call the winter session. According to Ishwari Prasad Acharya, Information Officer of the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, the annual session passed 6 bills with a two-year validity. The session could not be convened for a long time as the government could not give business to the Lumbini State Assembly. 

In the fifth meeting of the provincial assembly, it was passed by the provincial assembly and approved by the speaker Tularam Gharti and sent to the provincial chief Krishna Bahadur Gharti for verification. However, the provincial chief Gharti sent both the bills back to the provincial assembly on October 22 with a message that there was a need to reconsider them. The Provincial Assembly is preparing to take both bills to the Consultative Committee on the Working Arrangements of the Provincial Assembly to submit them for further discussion.