KATHMANDU: Speaker Subas Chandra Nembang has called a meeting of the Parliament for 11 am on Sunday, October 11, to elect a new Prime Minister. Reading out a letter from President Ram Baran Yadav regarding his call for the election at the House meeting today, Speaker Nembang said the House would elect the new Prime Minister on Sunday. Meanwhile, he authorised Parliament Secretariat's Secretary General Manohar Prasad Bhattarai as the election officer to carry out election procedures. According to the election schedule published by the Secretariat, candidates are required to register their names for the election from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday. Earlier, President Yadav had called the House to begin procedures to elect the Prime Minister as per Article 298(3) of the Nepal's Constitution, 2072. As the seven-day deadline given by the President to choose  consensual Prime Minister ended yesterday, the President made the call for an election to the Prime Minister. The second largest party in the Parliament, CPN-UML, has already decided to field its Chairman KP Sharma Oli in the election while the Nepali Congress has not made any formal decision yet. Lawmakers call govt to resolve crisis Meanwhile, speaking at the House meeting today, lawmakers of various parties called the government to resolve the current crisis caused due to short supply of essentials. Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal's senior leader Ashok Kumar Rai accused the government of not being proactive and serious toward solving the crisis. He also suspected that agitations carried out by Madhesi and Janajati communities are being overlooked while bringing obstructions of supplies through the border points into the limelight. The new government should address all problems of the nation through dialogues while it should not compromise on the issues of national integrity and independence, he urged. Other lawmakers including those of ruling Nepali Congress and CPN-UML had urged the government to take diplomatic initiatives to ease supply of essentials from India. Speakers included NC's Ram Hari Khatiwada, Dhan Raj Gurung, Bharat Bahadur Shahi; and UML's Bhim Bahadur Rawal, Pashupati Chaulagain, Bhanubhakta Dhakal and UCPN-Maoist's Agni Prasad Sapkota.