Kathmandu, April 20:

Speaker Subas Nembang today met Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and briefed him on the demands Maoist and Madhesi lawmakers have put forward.

“I apprised the Prime Minister of the demands of Maoist and Madhesi lawmakers and he sounded positive,” Nembang told this daily this afternoon.

Nembang urged the Prime Minister to settle the issue soon so that the next meeting of the House scheduled for 23 April goes on smoothly.

The Maoists have been demanding Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula apologise in the parliament for carrying out raids on the offices of the Young Communist League (YCL) in the valley.

They have also been demanding a high-level judicial commission to investigate the Gaur incident, in which Maoist cadres clashed with cadres of the Madhesi Janadhikaar Forum resulting in the deaths of 27 people.

Meanwhile, Madhesi lawmakers have been demanding that the report of the Constituency Delimitation Commission (CDC) be annulled and another Commission headed by a Madhesi formed. The lawmakers disrupted proceedings in the House yesterday demanding a high-level judicial commission to investigate the Madhesi movement in which “hundreds have been disabled, and thousands injured.”