KATHMANDU: The Business Advisory Committee meeting is underway to convene the meeting of the House of Representatives today.

Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara had been trying to create environment to forge consensus in order to convene the House meeting since the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) and opposition parties — Nepali Congress and Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal — left the House on July 15.

The NCP wanted to allow Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa to speak first in the House, whereas the opposition parties jointly registered a motion on a matter of public importance to discuss ways to support people affected by floods and landslides and they wanted to discuss this agenda first.

Although the House, initially, called for the meeting at 1:00 am today, for now, the meeting would decide which agenda would be discussed in the HoR meeting later today, spokesperson for the Parliament Secretariat, Roj Nath Pandey told THT.

The two opposition parties — Nepali Congress and Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal — had obstructed House proceedings since July 9, demanding formation of a parliamentary committee to investigate the loss of two lives in police firing in Sarlahi. But after the devastating floods and landslides, opposition parties suspended their demand for a while and asked that a matter of public importance be discussed in the house.