KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 26
The Council of Ministers today decided to call the new session of the Parliament on March 7.
While Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives, and Poverty Alleviation Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe said the Cabinet today urged the president to call the new session of the Parliament on March 7, Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Development Padma Kumari Aryal said the Cabinet decided that the new session of the Parliament should be held on March 7, but a formal recommendation to the president was not made. Aryal said the date would probably be the same, but another Cabinet meeting would take a call on that.
Tumbahangphe said the president was expected to announce the date of the new session of the Parliament within next two days. The government decided to call the new session of the Parliament after the Supreme Court ordered the government on February 23 to call the new session of the Parliament within 13 days.
Terming the period between December 20, when the House of Representatives was dissolved, and the February 23, when the House was reinstated by the Supreme Court, as zero period, the apex court ordered the government to call the new session of the Parliament to ensure that there won't be a gap of more than six months between the end of previous session of the Parliament and commencement of the new session.
The new session could witness filing of a no-trust motion against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli by the faction of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal.
The Dahal-Nepal faction had termed the dissolution of the HoR by the Oli government unconstitutional, autocratic, undemocratic, and regressive move. The constitutional bench of the SC invalidated the PM's move to dissolve the HoR.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 27, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
