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Speaker of the House of Representatives DP Aryal has announced that today's meeting has been postponed. He informed the House that the next meeting will be held on Thursday at 11 am.
Speaker of the House of Representatives DP Aryal has said that he does not have the authority to set a date for Prime Minister Balendra Shah to appear in the parliament session.
He made this clarification after opposition party lawmakers demanded a ruling to allow the Prime Minister to participate in the discussion on the government's policies and programs. Speaker Aryal has made it clear that he does not have the authority or basis to set a schedule for any lawmaker to appear in the parliament.
Opposition MPs are continuously disrupting the functioning of the House. They have obstructed the functioning of the Parliament meeting, demanding the presence of the Prime Minister in the discussion on policies and programs. Speaker DP Aryal is requesting for cooperation in running the House.
Speaker of the House of Representatives DP Aryal has said that there are 35 proposals in the policy and program amendments presented by the government for the fiscal year 2083/84. The meeting, which was adjourned for 15 minutes, has resumed after more than 1 hour.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Dol Prasad Aryal has directed the Federal Parliament Secretariat to remove unparliamentary words expressed by UML parliamentary party leader Ram Bahadur Thapa from the record.
In today's meeting of the House of Representatives, Rastriya Swatantra Party MP Manish Khanal had demanded that the views expressed by leader Thapa on Tuesday be removed, saying they were unparliamentary. Immediately after MP Manish Khanal made his views, UML MP Ain Mahar protested. -RSS
The House of Representatives meeting, which was adjourned for 15 minutes, has not resumed even after an hour. The parliament was adjourned for 15 minutes after opposition lawmakers disrupted the proceedings, demanding the Prime Minister's presence in the parliament.
Today's meeting of the House of Representatives has been adjourned for 15 minutes. The proceedings of the House were adjourned after opposition party lawmakers rose from their seats in the meeting demanding the presence of Prime Minister Balendra Shah.
Earlier in the meeting, lawmakers had said that the Prime Minister's presence was necessary in the discussion on policies and programs. Today's meeting was scheduled to begin discussions on the policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year presented by President Ram Chandra Poudel.
Opposition parties have disrupted the meeting in the House of Representatives, saying that Prime Minister Balendra Shah was not present. The opposition parties are angry that Prime Minister Shah did not come to answer questions about the policies and programs of the upcoming fiscal year.
The main opposition party, the Nepali Congress, has urged the Speaker to rule to make the Prime Minister present in Parliament.
In the House of Representatives meeting on Wednesday, Nepali Congress Whip Niskal Rai objected to the Prime Minister being absent from the House.
He said that the Prime Minister should be present in the House to answer questions raised on the policies and programs presented by himself. Stating that it is the Speaker's responsibility to protect the dignity of Parliament, he urged the Prime Minister to be called to Parliament by ruling.
UML MP Suhang Nembang, while recounting the history of tea farming in Parliament, raised the issue of tea exports to India being at a standstill, saying that the lives of more than 15,000 farmers are linked to tea. He said, ‘An immediate diplomatic initiative should be taken with the Indian government to resolve this issue.’
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) MP Sushant Baidik has said that the government should launch a special program to prevent damage caused by natural disasters, raising the issue of deaths due to lightning strikes and fires.
Speaking in the House of Representatives, MP Sajida Khatun Siddiqui has opposed the government's work to remove squatter settlements. She said that the work of removing squatter settlements has been dozer terrorized, and said, ‘There is a race to eliminate poverty.’
In today's meeting, Prime Minister Balendra Shah will not answer Finance Minister Dr. Swarnim Wagle is scheduled to answer the questions raised after the discussion on policies and programs.
President Ram Chandra Poudel read out the government's policies and programs for the fiscal year 2083/84 in the Federal Parliament meeting on Baisakh 28.
The meeting of the House of Representatives has begun. At the beginning of the meeting, which had an agenda to discuss the government's policies and programs, some lawmakers requested emergency time, but Speaker DP Aryal has granted time. Now, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) lawmaker Indira Rana Magar is speaking.
