Parliamentary committee chairs to take oath

Kathmandu, April 17

The oath-taking ceremony of the chairpersons of parliamentary committees is scheduled for 4 PM today. A total of 12 committee chairs were elected on Friday, and the swearing-in will take place shortly after the elections.

Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal will administer the oath at Singha Durbar, according to Ekram Giri, Joint Secretary and spokesperson of the Federal Parliament Secretariat.

In Friday’s elections, Hari Dhakal of the Rastriya Swatantra Party was unanimously elected chair of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, while Samiksha Baskota was elected unopposed as chair of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee.

Similarly, Ashok Kumar Chaudhary was elected chair of the Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Committee; Ashish Gajurel of the Infrastructure Development Committee; and Aakriti Awasthi of the Women and Social Affairs Committee—all unopposed.

Other unanimously elected chairs include Bodhanarayan Shrestha (Parliamentary Hearing Committee), Rahbar Ansari (Industry, Commerce, Labour and Consumer Welfare Committee), Sumnima Udas (International Relations and Tourism Committee), and Krishna Hari Budhathoki (Finance Committee).

From the main opposition, Nepali Congress lawmaker Bharat Khadka was also elected unopposed as chair of the Public Accounts Committee after receiving backing from the Rastriya Swatantra Party.

However, elections for two committees saw multiple candidates. In the Committee on Monitoring and Evaluation of the Implementation of State Policies and Principles, Ganesh Karki defeated Madan Kumari Shah, backed by the Communist Party of Nepal, thanks to the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s clear majority.

Similarly, in the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee, Ojaswi Sherchan defeated Guru Prasad Baral, also securing victory on the strength of her party’s majority.

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