[caption id="attachment_50481" align="alignnone" width="1042"]Citizenship Bill submitted to the National Assembly File Photo[/caption] Kathmandu, 3 September: The National Assembly (NA) has passed the Nepal Citizenship (First Amendment) Bill, 2079 with majority of votes. The Upper House received the bill sent by the House of Representatives along with a message after passing it again. Earlier, President Bidya Devi Bhandari had returned the bill to the parliament for reconsideration but it was totally ignored. Some lawmakers taking part in the deliberation had suggested that the bill should not be made an issue of contention between the ruling and opposition parties while others  said the passage of the bill sent for reconsideration from the President by the House of Representatives as it was had downplayed the image of parliament. They were of the view that international practice could be taken into consideration on the time to confer naturalized citizenship. People's News Monitoring Service