Aangdembe to Address from Congress at First Session of the House of Representatives

March 19, Kathmandu – The first session of the newly formed House of Representatives is set to commence today (Thursday). The meeting is scheduled for 2 PM in the multipurpose hall of the under-construction Federal Parliament building at Singha Durbar.

The agenda includes party-based statements from members marking the inauguration of the session. As the second-largest party in the House, Nepali Congress MP Bhishanraj Aangdembe will deliver a speech.

A Congress official confirmed that proportional representation MP Aangdembe will speak on behalf of the party. Earlier, the Parliamentary Secretariat had stated that no decision had yet been made regarding who would represent Congress in the address.

According to Padma Prasad Pandey, Secretary General of the Federal Parliamentary Secretariat, Ravi Lamichhane, an MP and chairperson of the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), will deliver a speech on behalf of the ruling party during Thursday’s session.

Similarly, Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’, leader of the parliamentary party of the third-largest party, Communist Party of Nepal (UML), and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, parliamentary party leader of the Nepal Communist Party, are also scheduled to address the session.

Furthermore, MPs who heads new parties formed after the election held on February 21, including Harka Sampang, chairperson of the Labour Culture Party, and parliamentary party leader Gyan Bahadur Shahi from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), will also deliver speeches, Secretary General Pandey shared.