RSP MP Indira Rana elected Deputy Speaker of HoR

KATHMANDU, Jan. 21: Rashtriya Swatantra Party MP Indira Rana Magar has been elected as the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. In the meeting of the HoR held on Saturday, 166 MPs voted in favor of Rana while 97 voted against her. Similarly, Nepal Workers Peasants Party MP Prem Suwal gave one vote in neutral. Out of a total of 275 MPs, 264 MPs were present in the House of Representatives. Rana was the joint candidate of the ruling coalition.
Speaker Debraj Ghimire first presented Rana's candidacy in the assembly for decision. During the division of votes, as the majority of MPs were in favor of Rana, the candidacy of Congress MP Muktakumari, who was her rival, did not have to be presented for decision.
Rana, who became a candidate from the ruling coalition party, was proposed to be elected as the Deputy Speaker by RSP MP Sovita Gautam, while UML MP Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Maoist MP Narayani Sharma, and RPP MP Rajendra Prasad Lingden supported it.
Similarly, on behalf of the opposition party, Congress MP Badri Prasad Pandey proposed that Congress MP Muktakumari Yadav should be elected to the post of Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, while Unified Socialist's MP Metmani Chaudhary and Loktantric Samajbadi Party MP Sarvendranath Shukla supported it. The next meeting of the HoR has been scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on January 10.