Kathmandu, 14 September: Despite sloganeering and obstruction in Parliamentary procedure by the main opposition CPN-UML,Speaker Agni Sapkota has conducted House meeting today.
The UML lawmakers went toward the rostrum chanting slogans immediately after he announced resumption of today’s meeting. Sapkota neither commented nor requested the protesting lawmakers to sit or stop chanting slogans but entered into business initiating discussion in principle on the budget allocating time to Finance Minister Janardan Sharma to present the motion to start deliberation on Appropriation Bill.
Later he announced the adjournment of the House meeting until September 20 amidst uproar. The UML has been obstructing the House since September 8 accusing Speaker Sapkota of splitting the party.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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