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A proposal for the election of the President of the National Assembly was submitted to the National Assembly on Tuesday. On Tuesday, MP Gopi Bahadur Sarki Achami of CPN (Maoist Center) submitted a proposal to elect Narayan Prasad Dahal, the common candidate of the coalition party, as the chairman. Similarly, Congress MP Anand Prasad Dhungana submitted a proposal that Yuvraj Sharma should be elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly.
With the split from the Congress and Maoist alliance, which had been in power for a year, the two parties are going to compete for the post of National Assembly Speaker. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's brother Narayan Dahal, who is also the chairman of the Maoists, and former Congress leader Yuvraj Sharma from the opposition filed their nominations for the Speaker of the National Assembly on Monday.
Prime Minister Dahal has created a new equation with the UML when the Congress and Maoists were in a tug-of-war within the then alliance to become the Speaker of the National Assembly.
The Congress made leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula enter the National Assembly with the intention of making him the Speaker of the National Assembly. Sitaula has been saying that he came to the National Assembly at the request of Dahal and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba.
After the Maoists changed their alliance and lost the possibility of becoming the president, Sitaula became the leader of the National Assembly Parliamentary Party from the party, and Sharma, the old leader of Banke, was put forward as an alternative.
Dahal, who became a candidate from the ruling coalition, has the support of Maoists, UML, United Socialist Party, Jaspa. In the 8-point agreement between the ruling coalition on February 21, it is mentioned that they will support the Maoist candidate for the Speaker of the National Assembly. On Tuesday, 5 other parties, including the United Samajwadi Party, issued a statement saying that they would vote for Narayan Dahal.
The ruling coalition has a majority in the National Assembly. There are 39 members in favor of the ruling coalition, including Maoist 17, UML 10, United Samajwadi 8 and Jaspa 3. 30 MPs will be the majority to be elected as the president. Nominated Vamdev Gautam has not revealed where he will vote.
Dahal, who has been in office for four years, was nominated as a member of the National Assembly by the President on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers in March 2078. Dahal, whose permanent address is Chitwan, has been active in the party since 2031. He has been a Maoist central member since 2057. Dahal became a member of the Interim Legislative Parliament in 2063 after the Maoists came to the peace process. In the first Constituent Assembly election held in 2006, Dahal was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly from Chitwan-3. Earlier, when Dahal was the prime minister, he was an advisor.
Congress has 16 MPs in the National Assembly. 72-year-old Sharma, who served as the Banke chairman of the Congress in 2045, was the vice-chairman in 2028 when Deuba was the chairman of the Navy. After it was confirmed that Sharma, who had fallen behind due to a dispute with leader Sushil Koirala, would not be elected, he was made a candidate for the Speaker of the National Assembly. "If there was a situation to win, it would have been Sitaula, Sharma got a chance only after it was certain that he would lose," said a Congress leader.
