President summons NA session for Jan. 18

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, Jan. 13: President Ramchandra Paudel has convened a session of the National Assembly (NA).

A meeting of the Council of Ministers held earlier on Monday recommended the President to summon the session on January 18 at 11:00 am. 

Acting on the recommendation, President Paudel formally summoned the session, according to the President’s Secretariat. Under constitutional provisions, the President convenes and prorogues sessions of Parliament on the recommendation of the government. 

The National Assembly is set to meet first following the Gen Z movement. The protests took place on September 8 and 9, after which an interim government was formed and the House of Representatives was dissolved. 

On the recommendation of the interim government, the President had prorogued the National Assembly session on September 16.

The government is preparing to hold the National Assembly meeting at the Secretariat Office of the Federal Parliament, Singha Durbar. The Parliament building at New Baneshwar was damaged by fire during the Gen Z movement. As an alternative, the hall of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee at Singha Durbar has been arranged to host the Assembly sittings.