{"id":4324,"date":"2020-12-15T11:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:09:40","slug":"house-speaker-sapkota-remains-absent-from-constitutional-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Sapkota remains absent from Constitutional Council meeting\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>KATHMANDU &#8211;<\/strong> The Constitutional Council meeting is underway at the Prime Minister\u2019s official residence Baluwatar. According to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli\u2019s Press Advisor Surya Thapa, the meeting of the Constitutional Council started at 10 am.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister Oli, Sher Bahadur Deuba, the leader of the main opposition party Nepali Congress, National Assembly\u2019s Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina and Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana are present in the meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Agni Prasad Sapkota, the speaker of the House of Representatives, remained absent from the meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shreedhar Neupane, press advisor of Sapkota, said that the Speaker did not attend the meeting due to lack of homework required for the meeting and collaboration from Prime Minister Oli.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least four members and the chairperson must be present in the meeting of the six-member Constitutional Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives is another member in the council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the deputy speaker\u2019s post is currently vacant, the Council\u2019s meeting cannot achieve the quorum for holding a meeting even one member remains absent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; The Constitutional Council meeting is underway at the Prime Minister\u2019s official residence Baluwatar. 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