A total of 20 seats in the National Assembly will be vacant after March 3. Out of these, 19 seats will be elected through elections. …reports Asian Lite News
The Nepal government announced on Wednesday, January 25, 2024, as the date to hold the elections to fill 20 vacant seats of the upper house.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Wednesday morning made the decision to hold the election for the National Assembly on the last week of January, government spokesperson Rekha Sharma confirmed ANI over the phone.
“The Election Commission had suggested the date for the election as January 25, according to which the date has been fixed through the meeting of the council of ministers,” Sharma said.
A total of 20 seats in the National Assembly will be vacant after March 3. Out of these, 19 seats will be elected through elections. While the remaining one will be nominated by the President on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.
In the National Assembly, the post of eight MPs from the Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), four from the Nepali Congress, three from CPN (Maoist Center), two from the Unified Socialist Party, one from the Janata Samajwadi Party, one from Rastriya Swatantra Party and one MP from UML will be vacant.
India-funded school buildings inaugurated
School and laboratory buildings of Shree Gautam Buddha Secondary School, Buddhabhumi Municipality, Kapilvastu District, built with Government of India’s financial assistance of Nepalese Rupees (NRs) 33.23 million under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation’, were formally inaugurated on Monday.
The inauguration ceremony was graced by the presence of the Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of India in Kathmandu Prasanna Shrivastava, Chief of District Coordination Committee Kapilvastu Baburam Acharya and Mayor of Buddhabhumi Municipality Keshav Kumar Shrestha. Political representatives, government officials, social workers, representatives of the School management, teachers, parents and students were also present on this occasion, a press release said.
The Government of India grant under ‘Nepal-India Development Cooperation’ was utilized for the construction of a double-storied school building, and a three-storied lab building and for procurement of furniture and lab equipment. (ANI)