House meeting put off till Monday

Kathmandu, August 1: Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed after political parties failed to forge consensus over the issue of removing obstacles taking place at the House for the past few days.

Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara had called the all-party meeting at the Parliament Building, New Baneshwor, today as an effort to remove obstacles in the house.

After the all party-meeting, Parliamentary Party Deputy-leader of the Nepal Communist Party, Subas Nembang, said that the HoR meeting has been postponed till Monday as further discussion is necessary to forge consensus over the Sarlahi incident.

Similarly, Whip of the Nepali Congress, Pushpa Bhusal, said that they have demanded to form a parliamentary probe committee over Sarlahi incident and all political parties needed further discussions.

Likewise, Chairperson of the federal council of the Socialist Party Nepal, Dr Baburam Bhattarai, suggested forming a parliamentary probe committee regarding Sarlahi incident and unveiling report of Lal Commission will be democratic.