Election of National Assembly Speaker on March 12

Kathmandu- The election of the Speaker of the National Assembly will be held on March 12. The detailed schedule of the election prepared by the National Assembly Executive Committee will be announced on March 10.

The term of office of 20 MPs including Speaker Ganesh Prasad Timilsina of the 59-member National Assembly is expiring on the 3rd of March. 19 members have been elected from the election of National Assembly members held on January 25, while the President will nominate one member on the recommendation of the Council of Ministers.

In terms of numbers, the coalition government currently has a clear majority in the National Assembly . As per the coalition leaders, Nepali Congress leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula might be the candidate for the Speaker of the National Assembly on behalf of the coalition.

Maoist became the largest party in the National Assembly

Kathmandu – With the results of today’s election of the National Assembly, the CPN Maoist Center has succeeded in becoming the largest party in the National Assembly. According to today’s vote results, the Maoist Center has become the largest party in the National Assembly with 17 seats, while the Congress is in second place with 16 seats.

In the National Assembly elections held for 19 seats, 10 people were elected from the Congress, 5 from the Maoist Center, 2 from the United Socialist Party and 1 each from the Janata Samajwadi Party and the CPN-UML. With today’s voting results, the party equation in the National Assembly has changed.

Who won the National Assembly member election?

In the election for National Assembly members, Krishna Sitaula of Congress and Rukmini Koirala of UML were elected from Koshi Province, while Anand Prasad Dhungana of Congress and Pooja Chaudhary of Jaspa were elected from Madhesh Province.

In Bagmati, Jeetjung Basnet and Vishnudevi Pudasaini of Nepali Congress, Srikrishna Adhikari of CPN Maoist Center and Ghanshyam Rizal of CPN Unified Socialist were elected, while in Gandaki, Kiran Babu Shrestha of Congress, Padma Bahadur Pariyar and Manrupa Sharma of Maoist were elected.

Similarly, Bishnu Kumari Sapkota of the Congress and Jhakkuprasad Subedi of the Maoist Center were elected from Lumbini Province, while Savitri Malla of the United Socialist Party, Vishnu BK of the Maoist and Krishna Bahadur Rokaya of the Congress were elected in Karnali.

Similarly, Maoist’s Renu Chand from the women’s side, Congress’s Narayan Bhatt from the disability side and Baldev Bohra from the Congress have been elected from Far West Province.

Vote count started in Janakpur

Janakpur- Vote count for the National Assembly member election has started in Janakpur. Voting started at 9 am and ended at 3 pm in all the 14 polling stations of seven provinces.

According to the Election Commission, 99.32 percent votes were cast in the election. Commission spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Poudel informed that the voting was peaceful and all the results will be available by 8 pm.

According to Paudel, counting of votes has already started in Janakpur of Madhesh province. All-party meetings have also started in other states. Counting of votes will begin in all provinces in the next hour.

Elections were held today for 19 seats in the National Assembly and one will be nominated by the President. 51 candidates from eight teams are competing for 19 seats .

National assembly election to be held today

Kathmandu – National Assembly elections are being held today in all seven provinces. Out of the 20 vacant seats in the National Assembly, elections are going to be held for 19 seats. One person will be nominated by the President on the recommendation of the government.

The Election Commission has said that voting will be held from 9 am to 3 pm and counting of votes will start immediately after the polling and the results will be announced today. Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapalia has informed that the election results will be announced within 3-4 hours.

According to the Election Commission, there are 51 candidates from eight political parties in the election. There are 5 candidates in Koshi province, 5 in Madhes, 15 in Bagmati, 8 in Gandaki and 6 each in Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces. There are a total of 51 candidates in all the seven provinces, 18 for the women group, 5 for the Dalit group, 8 for persons with disabilities or minority communities and 20 for other groups.

In the election of members of the National Assembly, the electors are the members of the provincial assembly, the chairman and vice-chairman of the rural municipality, and the head and deputy chief of the municipality. There are a total of 2 thousand 47 voters for the election of the member of the national assembly .