The Council of Ministers meeting held on 1 Chaitra had recommended Aryal for membership in the National Assembly, citing his significant role in the election.
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President Ram Chandra Poudel is confused by the recommendation made by the Council of Ministers to nominate Home Minister Om Prakash Aryal as a member of the National Assembly. The Council of Ministers meeting held on 1 Chaitra had recommended Aryal for the National Assembly, citing his significant role in holding the elections.
President Poudel has put the decision of the electoral government on hold as a government with a new mandate is being formed. According to Sheetal Niwas sources, President Poudel has stopped the recommendation by citing the example of former President Bidya Devi Bhandari. In 2074 BS, too, after the elections were held and a new mandate came, the then Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba had recommended three names.
The names of Chandani Joshi, Krishna Prasad Poudel and Gopal Basnet, whom Deuba recommended at that time, were put on hold by the then President Bhandari. After Deuba left the post of Prime Minister and the government was formed under the leadership of KP Sharma Oli, the government withdrew the recommendation and sent new names. The then President Bhandari immediately approved the recommendations of Ram Narayan Bidari, Yubaraj Khatiwada and Bimala Poudel Rai by the Oli-led Council of Ministers.
Press Advisor to the President's Office Kiran Pokharel said that the matter of recommending Aryal as a member of the National Assembly was not in his 'notice'. According to sources close to the President, Poudel was reluctant to appoint not only a previous precedent but also a person who was already the Home Minister. However, an official in the President's Office argued that the process of taking the matter to the President could not be completed due to the absence of a secretary.
After the Secretary to the President's Office retired, the government has not sent another secretary. Since a secretary has not been sent, the acting secretary can do all administrative work. 'The acting secretary can raise comments and submit them to the President. Not that it is not possible. But it is understood that the President is trying to keep it on 'hold' by keeping in mind the situation where a new mandate has come, external public opinion and the person who has already become the Home Minister in the background,' said a Sheetal Niwas source. Law Minister Anil Kumar Sinha said that he has not received any information about whether any decision has been made by the President on the government's recommendation.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Sushila Karki has been criticized for recommending her own cabinet member Aryal. 'Even though Prime Minister Karki won the election successfully and was praised, there has been a controversy after she decided to recommend Aryal to the National Assembly and appoint her personal secretary Adarsh Shrestha as the chairperson of the National Nature Conservation Trust. Gen-G activists have been demanding its withdrawal, saying that this decision is against the spirit of the Gen-G movement,' said a source in the President's Office. 'It seems that the President wanted to hold on to it even on this basis.'
The cabinet meeting had decided to make the recommendation in accordance with Article 86 (2) (b) of the Constitution. There is a constitutional provision that three people, including at least one woman, be appointed on the recommendation of the government in the 59-member National Assembly. The government recommended Aryal's name in his place as the term of Bamdev Gautam, among the three nominees, has expired. Out of the 19 members of the National Assembly, 18, including the 1 vacant nominee, were elected and sworn in on 11th Magh.
