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President Ram Chandra Paudel has removed Secretary of the House of Representatives Harka Raj Rai from his post.

On the recommendation of House Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal, President Paudel removed him from the post  effective today. 

The main opposition party, Nepali Congress (NC), has sought a response regarding Prime Minister Balendra Shah's leaving from the assembly hall while President Ram Chandra Paudel was addressing the joint sitting of the Federal Parliament on Monday.

Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal allocated the NC Chief Whip Basana Thapa time to speak at the outset of today's meeting of the House of Representatives after the MPs stood up from their seats.

Chief Whip Thapa said, "It is not a trivial matter but a serious issue that Prime Minister Shah left the House during the President's address; a clear response from the government is needed on this."

She also urged the Head of Government to respect the constitutional position and not to weaken the parliamentary tradition.

President Paudel had presented the government's policies and programs for the fiscal year 2083/84 in a joint meeting of both houses of the Federal Parliament on Monday.

The CPN-UML has nominated party secretary and former minister Padma Aryal as the Deputy leader of its Parliamentary Party. . 

According to Chief Whip Ain Mahar, UML Parliamentary Party leader Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal) nominated former minister Aryal to the post. 

Aryal, who serves as the UML secretary, is currently a member of Parliament elected through the proportional representation system. 

Earlier, the party had appointed Mahar as Chief Whip and Nita Ghatani as Whip of the Parliamentary Party. .

Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Dol Prasad Aryal called on President Ram Chandra Paudel at the Office of the President Shital Niwas on Tuesday. 

During the meeting, the two exchanged views on contemporary issues, according to the President's Secretariat.