KATHMANDU, April 17: The federal parliament has elected chairpersons for 12 parliamentary committees, including 10 under the House of Representatives and two joint committees of both houses.
The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has secured leadership in 11 of the 12 committees.
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In the House of Representatives, RSP lawmakers were elected as chairpersons of eight committees unopposed. The elected chairpersons are: Hari Dhakal (State Affairs and Good Governance Committee), Samikshya Basnet (Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee), Rahabar Ansari (Industry, Commerce, Labour and Consumer Welfare Committee), Krishna Hari Budhathoki (Finance Committee), Ashok Chaudhary (Agriculture, Cooperatives and Natural Resources Committee), Sumnima Udas (International Relations and Tourism Committee), Aakriti Awasthi(Women and Social Affairs Committee), and Ashish Gajurel (Physical Infrastructure Development Committee).
In the Education, Health and Information Technology Committee, RSP lawmaker Ojashwi Sherchan was elected after defeating UML’s Guru Baral in a vote. Although Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Centre) lawmakers supported Baral, he failed to secure a majority in the 27-member committee.
RSP lawmakers Bodhanarayan Shrestha and Ganesh Karki were also elected as chairpersons of the Parliamentary Hearing Committee and the Committee on the Implementation of Directive Principles and State Policies, respectively.
The Public Accounts Committee was won unopposed by Nepali Congress lawmaker Bharat Bahadur Khadka. The RSP did not field a candidate for the committee.
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