Biratnagar, Aug 21: Deputy Speaker of the Koshi Province Assembly Sirjana Danuwar has assigned the duty of running the PA meeting to Israil Mansuri in her absence. She entrusted him with the responsibility through the Koshi Province Secretariat. In a notice, she said she would not be able to chair the PA meeting today and the immediate next meeting.
Four PA members were assigned with
the duty to run the PA meeting in the absence of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker. Of
them, senior most PA member Malati Kumari Limbu and the next senior most Ambar
Bahadur Bista notified that she would be absent from the August 18 meeting. So,
the duty of operating the meeting has gone to Mansuri, it has been said.
Meanwhile, CPN (UML)'s Taradevi
Dhakal, Khadga Bahadur Basnet, Gyanendra Subedi, Rohit Bahadur Karki, and Ram
Prasad Mahato and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)'s Gopal Bahadur Bishwakarma
have also informed the Province Assembly Secretariat that they will be on leave
today and would not be present in the Assembly meeting.
Similarly, in the meeting of the
Assembly Business Advisory Committee this morning, the parties agreed to hold
the Assembly's meeting at 12:15 pm.
The Nepali Congress, the CPN (UML),
the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal were present in
the Committee meeting that convened at 8 am today. (RSS)