Voting today to elect Deputy Speaker, Who could triumph between Pushpa & Vidya?
The deputy speaker election will take place at 3 p.m.
KATHMANDU: Today is the election for the vacant position of Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. The deputy speaker election will take place at 3 p.m.
Pushpa Bhusal of the Congress and Bidya Bhattarai of the main opposition CPN-UML have been nominated for the position of Deputy Speaker by the ruling coalition. In the House of Representatives by-election, Bhattarai is a UML MP from Kaski-2. She has registered her candidacy in support of Shanta Chaudhary’s and Krishna Bhakta Pokhrel’s proposals.
Bhusal, a Congress whip, has registered her candidacy with the support of the CPN-Maoist Center’s Dev Prasad Gurung and the Unified Socialists’ Laxmi Kumari Chaudhary. Bhusal had previously been defeated as a candidate for deputy speaker. In the 2074 BS election, Bhusal was defeated by UML’s Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe.
As there is a clear majority in Parliament, Pushpa Bhusal, the common candidate of the ruling five-party coalition, is almost certain to be the Deputy Speaker.
In the House of Representatives, the UML has 98 MPs, the Congress has 63, the Maoist Center has 49, the United Socialist Party has 23, the JSP has 21, the LOSAPA has 13, and other small parties and independents have four.
The Parliament was left without a Deputy Speaker after the then-Deputy Speaker, Shiva Maya Tumbahangfe, resigned on 2076 Magh 6 (20 January 2020).
The Speaker and Deputy Speaker must be from different parties and genders, according to the constitution.
