Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota today adjourned the meeting of the House of Representatives for a week.

During today’s House meeting, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dilendra Prasad Badu presented the Nepal Police and State Police (Operation, Supervision and Coordination) (First Amendment) Ordinance 2078 BS on behalf of the government amid obstruction by CPN-UML.

He also introduced the Acid and Other Harmful Chemicals (Regulation) Ordinance 2078 and the Social Security (First Amendment) Ordinance 2078.
Similarly, Railway Ordinance 2078, Ordinance to amend some Acts against Sexual Violence and Ordinance to amend some Acts related to Criminal Offenses and Criminal Procedure were also introduced in the Parliament.

Nepal’s constitution provisions that ordinance(s) brought by the government in absence of parliamentary sessions should be tabled in the first sitting of the parliament’s resumption.

Meanwhile, the main opposition party CPN-UML continued to block the parliament session this time as well. An earlier meeting of the UML parliamentary party held to discuss the party’s strategy for the winter session of parliament starting today had decided to continue with the obstruction of parliament.

UML had protested and blocked House meetings throughout the previous sessions of parliament saying that Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota did not fulfill his duties by not removing the 14 lawmakers, including Madhav Kumar Nepal, from their posts against whom CPN-UML had requested the speaker to take action against.

Sapkota refused to take action against the said lawmakers stating that they had already formed a new party, CPN (Unified Socialist).

Madhav Kumar Nepal formed the new party on August 18 which was duly registered by the Election Commission on August 25.

CPN-UML has been obstructing parliament proceedings since the ninth session that convened on September 8. The last session ended without endorsing a single bill, except those related to the budget.

There are 57 bills pending in the two Houses of the parliament—42 in the Lower House and 15 in the National Assembly.