Parliament Meeting Adjourned for 15 Minutes After MP's Remark

Ratopati July 08, 2026

Parliament Meeting Adjourned for 15 Minutes After MP's Remark

Kathmandu. Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal has adjourned the meeting of the House of Representatives for 15 minutes. The main reason for adjourning the meeting was the statement of UML MP Rajendra Rai. As soon as the parliamentary meeting started on Wednesday, opposition party MPs stood up and protested.

After that, Speaker Aryal gave time to Nepali Congress MP Pramila Gachhadar to speak. After Gachhadar spoke, MP Rai of UML was given time to speak. While expressing his views, Rai questioned Speaker Aryal whether he could hear or not.

At the beginning of his statement, Rai asked, 'Mr. Speaker, can you hear or not?' Then Speaker Aryal stopped him from speaking.

After that, Speaker Aryal warned the honorable member to speak within the limits of decency. He did not stop there. The Speaker further said, 'You are disrespecting the Speaker, you are disrespecting the Speaker.'

Then, instead of letting Rai speak, another MP Parshuram Tamang was given time. At that time, MPs of UML stood up and protested. Then RSP MP Tika Sangraula raised a point of order. In the point of order, Sangraula demanded that the words spoken in the House that insult the Speaker be removed from the record of the House of Representatives meeting.

Reminding the provision of Rule 21 'B' of the House of Representatives Regulations, she said, 'Except during the discussion of a motion that the Speaker has not acted in accordance with his position, there is a clear legal provision that the Speaker's conduct should not be criticized. But here, by standing up, a question is asked whether the Speaker can hear or not, what is this intention?'

Then Speaker Aryal again gave Rai a chance to speak, saying that Rai had said he would introspect. But when Rai retorted to Speaker Aryal, 'Can you run the parliament for 5 years like this?', the Speaker adjourned the parliamentary meeting for 15 minutes.