PM Oli to address Parliament today

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is scheduled to address the House of Representatives (HoR) under the federal Parliament today.

Prime Minister Oli will address the House meeting scheduled to be held at 11 am at the Parliament Building, New Baneshwor on Monday.

CPN-UML Chief Whip Mahesh Bartaula informed that PM Oli is scheduled to address the House at the beginning of the meeting.

It is believed that the parliamentary deadlock due to protest from the main opposition party will end with the PM’s address.

Today’s meeting is scheduled to pass five important replacement bills with discussion.

In the agenda of the HoR, PM Oli is scheduled to address the issues related to violent agitation of the royalists last Friday and the dismissal of Kulman Ghising from the executive director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).

The meeting is scheduled to table the ‘Banking Offences and Punishment (Second Amendment) Bill-2080’ with the message received from the National Assembly.

Similarly, President of the Infrastructure Development Committee of the HoR Deepak Bahadur Singh is scheduled to submit the committee’s report on water resources bill-2081 BS.

President of the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee Ammar Bahadur Thapa is scheduled to present the committee’s report on the ‘Shaheed Dasharath Chand University of Health Sciences Bill-2081 BS’.

Likewise, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajay Kumar Chaurasia will present a proposal in the National Assembly seeking consideration of the Nepal Council of Legal Practitioners (Second Amendment) Bill- 2081 BS.

Similarly, Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak is scheduled to present a proposal to send the Nepal Citizenship (Second Amendment) Bill-2081 to the concerned committee for clause-wise discussion.