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Lawmakers have drawn the attention of the government on contemporary issues.

During an emergency hour in today's meeting of the House of Representatives, Nagarik Unmukti Party Chairperson Ranjita Shrestha demanded the government to carry out an impartial investigation into the arrest of party patron Resham Chaudhary on April 30.

Similarly, Nepali Congress lawmaker Kantika Sejuwal drew the government's attention to rescue Dipraj Bhandari (26) of Sumli Village in Chhayanath Municipality-14 of Mugu district, who was stranded in the United Arab Emirates for the past three months. 

He has been there for the past one year in the course of overseas employment. 

Likewise, CPN-UML lawmaker Thakur Prasad Gaire asked the government to complete the construction of the Federal Parliament building which is under construction in Singha Durbar premises.

CPN (Maoist Center) lawmaker Purna Bahadur Gharti Magar drew the government's attention towards the fact that the budget allocated for district headquarters is not spent while Rastriya Swatantra Party lawmaker Manish Jha demanded the government to increase women's participation in the Cabinet.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Paudel and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting on Tuesday.

During the meeting held at Khumaltar this morning, Finance Minister Paudel discussed matters related to budget for the upcoming fiscal year with Dahal, the leader of the main opposition party.

Paudel, who is also the Vice Chairman of the CPN-UML, also discussed contemporary political issues with the Maoist Center Chairman, Dahal's Secretariat informed.

Discussions on the government’s policies and programs will be continued in the House of Representatives and National Assembly today.

The meeting of the House of Representatives has been scheduled for 11 am while the National Assembly meeting will be held  at 12:15 pm today. 

Lawmakers are scheduled to present their views on the government's policies and programs in today’s meeting.

President Ram Chandra Paudel had presented the government's policies and programs at the joint meeting  of both the Houses of the Federal Parliament last Friday. 

Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Devendra Dahal, on behalf of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, had presented a proposal in the meeting of the HoR on Monday. 

Discussions on the government’s policies and programs had begun in the National Assembly since last Sunday. 

Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday, CNN reported.

Rwanda has in recent years positioned itself as a destination country for migrants that Western countries would like to remove, despite concerns by rights groups that Kigali does not respect some of the most fundamental human rights.

Kigali signed an agreement with Britain in 2022 to take in thousands of asylum seekers from the United Kingdom before the deal was scrapped last year by then newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

“We are in discussions with the United States,” Nduhungirehe said in an interview with the state broadcaster Rwanda TV, according to CNN.

“It has not yet reached a stage where we can say exactly how things will proceed, but the talks are ongoing… still in the early stages.”