The 7th session of the reinstated House of Representatives was prorogued without discussing and approving any of the 36 bill drafts tabled earlier.
President Bidya Devi Bhandari prorogued the 7th session of the House of Representatives from 1:00 pm on Monday on the recommendation of the government.
Issuing a notice, the office of the President said that the House session was prorogued from Monday afternoon staying under the provisions of Article 93(2) of the Constitution of Nepal on the recommendation of the government.
A cabinet meeting held Monday morning had decided to prorogue the session.
No bill drafts were tabled except for 16 condolence messages and two reports of parliamentary committee, one of them on ‘Nepal Engineering Council-2019’ and another on ‘Federal Civil Service-2018’ in the 7th session of the House.
Rojnath Pandey, Secretary at the federal parliament secretariat, said that neither were any bills tabled nor were any endorsed in the winter session of the reinstated House. Altogether 55 bills – 36 bills that emerged in House of Representatives and 19 in National Assembly – were waiting their turn for endorsement.
Bills on Security Council, Human Rights Commission, Pokhara Health and Science Academy, Peace and Security and National Priority Projects’ Fast Construction and Development were distributed to the lawmakers before they could be discussed in detail in the House.
The draft on ‘Nepal Special Service Act-2019’ already completed theoretical discussion.
The winter session of the House that began on March 7 sat only nine times after the Supreme Court reinstated it in a verdict on February 23.
Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota was not satisfied with sudden prorogation of the House. He said that no consultation was made with him before the prorogation notice came to his office. Not only Speaker Sapkota but also the opposition Nepali Congress and other parliamentary parties expressed their concerns over the sudden prorogation.
Source : THE RISING NEPAL,
