Kathmandu, February 7:

A committee formed under the coordination of MP Purna Bahadur Khadka today unanimously passed the draft regulations of the Legislature-Parliament without incorporating six different principle issues, including whether to have the opposition in the interim House.

The committee decided to suggest the Legislature-Parliament to address those issues while amending the Interim Constitution, 2007. “We will submit the draft Regulations at the Legislature-Parliament tomorrow. There are basic principle issues which need to be addressed while amending the Constitution,” said MP Khadka.

The issues include introducing a provision that would allow the PM, at the request of 25 per cent of MPs, to convene a special session of the House when it is not sitting.

“Some MPs were for introducing the provision of having an opposition leader in the parliament, while others were against it because this is the time of national consensus. As having an opposition leader is a general parliamentary practice to maintain check and balance, we have suggested to address it by amending the Constitution,” Khadka said.

He said that the committee will suggest incorporating a provision in the Constitution that will allow a certain per cent of lawmakers to propose a no-confidence motion against the PM when necessary.

“Lawmakers were of the view that such provisions should be included in the Regulations because they were missing in the Interim Constitution. But we decided they should be introduced in the Constitution itself through amendment,” added Khadka.

The suggestions also include a provision that will allow the PM to seek Legislature-Parliament’s vote of confidence for the government whenever necessary.

The committee has also decided to keep the Speaker of the Legislature-Parliament as the chairperson of the Security Special Committee, and Special Committee for Monitoring Constituent Assembly as they are considered more important than the rest of the special committees.

The draft Regulations has also introduced a new provision of recording statements and speeches of lawmakers even if they choose to speak in mother tongue.