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Nepali Congress lawmaker Bishwo Prakash Sharma accused CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli of trying to keep Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal in a cage in the name of high-level mechanism. He said so while speaking in a Parliament meeting on Thursday. Saying that the Congress has not been laying a trap, Sharma, who is also the General Secretary of the Nepali Congress, said that Oli, however, has been trying to keep the Prime Minister in the cage. He opined that the presence of opposition in the Speaker and Sheetal Niwas will also represent the people's vote and balance the power. Sharma said that the Nepali Congress made Ishwori Neupane, a follower of party’s founding leader BP Koirala, as the candidate of the Speaker on the basis of her ability, qualifications and experience.

Nepali Congress has demanded that the incumbent government issues a ruling relating to the Yeti Airlines aircraft crash in Pokhara on Sunday. Taking time in today's meeting of the House of Representatives, NC Chief Whip Ramesh Lekhak demanded so through the Speaker. He expected that the government would deliver its view on the crash that killed all 72 people onboard the plane. "The government should put its view on the incident even by postponing the meeting's agenda," he said. Stating that the government cannot be apathetic towards the Parliament, he, through the Speaker, asked it to issue a ruling on the matter.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal met the families of the passengers who lost their lives in the Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj on Thursday. On the occasion, PM Dahal directed the concerned authority to speed up the post-mortem, make it scientific and hand over the mortal remains to the families at the earliest. The PM's Secretariat said that the Prime Minister urged the hospital administration to ask help from the government to complete the work of identifying the bodies promptly. The Executive Chief also observed the bodies kept there for identification and met with the kin of the deceased. Extending condolences to the families of the crash victims, he said that he has instructed the officials concerned to speed up the body handover process. A Yeti Airlines plane that was flying to Pokhara from Kathmandu on January 15 crashed in Pokhara before landing, killing all 72 people on board. The government has formed a high-level investigation commission to probe the incident. The commission has already started its works.  

Lumbini Province Chief Minister Leela Giri is scheduled to take a vote of confidence on Thursday. CM Giri is to take the vote of confidence at the Province Assembly meeting at 1 pm today. He was appointed the Chief Minister on January 11 with the support of 58 Province Assembly members. CM Giri had received support from 29 members of the CPN-UML, 10 of the Maoist Centre, four each of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Nagarik Unmukti Party, three each of JSP, Janamat Party and LSP and two independent province assembly members. It requires 44 votes to secure a majority in the 87-member Province Assembly.