HoR meeting will be resumed from 2 pm: Speaker Ghimire

Kathmandu, June 9: The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Devraj Ghimire, has said that the House meeting will commence from 2.00 pm today.

The Speaker said so after observing today the photo exhibition entitled 'Mountain Tourism: Our Pride, Our Identity' organized by Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), the National News Agency to commemorate the 18th Republic Day.

"The House does not necessarily have to be obstructed, but it is. The meeting of the House of Representatives will be held from 2 o'clock today. Generally, meetings used to be scheduled for 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock, but today the meeting has been set for 2 o'clock. I hope the Parliament will start from 2 o'clock," he said on the occasion.

He said the House meeting was disrupted just when it was about to hold discussions on important agendas of the budget. "Now, it is necessary to reduce the number of MPs taking part in the deliberations and to conduct the discussions according to the procedure," the Speaker said, adding that the House obstruction has already caused the damage and the agenda for now should be set accordingly, and the discussion on the budget should be concluded according to the procedure.

Speaker Ghimire asserted that the meeting agenda would now be set in order to conclude the deliberations on the budget within the fixed timeline. (RSS)