Many UML MPs on leave from National Assembly [With list]

KATHMANDU: OCT. 26 – Twenty members of the National Assembly (MPs) are on leave from March 4. The main opposition party CPN-UML has the highest number of MPs leaving. Eight of the CPN-UML, four of the CPN-Maoist Center, four of the CPN (Unified Socialist), three of the Nepali Congress and one nominated MP will be on leave.

UML MPs Suman Raj Pyakurel, Parashuram Meghi Gurung, Komal Oli, Kabita Bogati, Chakra Snehi, Nanakala Ojha, Ram Lakhan Chamar and Agam Bantawa Rai are on leave. Pyakurel is the leader of the UML parliamentary party in the National Assembly. Gurung is the chairman of the Legislative Management Committee.

Shashikala Dahal, Dinanath Sharma, Jeevan Budha and Khim Kumar BK of the Maoist Center are on leave. Dahal is the Vice-Chairman of the National Assembly, while Sharma is the leader of the Maoist parliamentary party in the National Assembly.

Thagendra Prasad Puri, Sher Bahadur Kunwar, Udaya Sharma Poudel and Shanti Kumari Adhikari of CPN-U are also on leave. All four were elected from the CPN-UML. When the UML split, four people chose the CPN-Unified Socialist.

Similarly, Radheshyam Adhikari, Tara Devi Bhatta and Dirghanarayan Pandey of Nepali Congress are on leave. Adhikari is the leader of the Congress parliamentary party in the National Assembly, while Bhatt is the chairman of the Sustainable Development and Good Governance Committee. Another nominated MP Ram Narayan Bidari is also on leave.

The term of the 59 members elected in the first election held in March 2018 was fixed by ballot. Of them, those who have been in office for two years had gone on leave last year and those who have been in office for four years will be on leave from March 4.