Speaker Ghimire calls meeting with top leaders of three parties

KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Speaker of the House of Representatives Devraj Ghimire has called a meeting with the top leaders of the three main parties. The Secretariat of the Speaker informed that Speaker Ghimire is going to discuss with the top leaders of the Nepali Congress, CPN UML, and CPN Maoist Center.

Speaker Ghimire has called for a meeting at 12 pm at his office at Singha Darbar calling the Prime Minister and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, and the Chairman of the main opposition party CPN UML, KP Sharma Oli to be present in the meeting along with the chief whips or whips.

In the House of Representatives meeting on July 26, UML obstructed the meeting demanding a high-level inquiry committee on the gold scandal. Due to UML's stand, the next two meetings were also postponed with notice.

On July 31 and August 1, the Speaker had telephone conversations with the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition party. The Speaker's Secretariat said that they have discussed more than 6 times with the chief whips and whips of the main parties at various levels.

The leaders on Sunday suggested to the Speaker during discussion with the chief whips at Singha Darbar, that a meeting should be held at the level of the top leaders to clear the obstruction of the House.