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Constituent Assembly Chairman and CPN-UML Vice-Chairman Subash Chandra Nembang died of a cardiac arrest on Tuesday.

He breathed his last on the way to a hospital after he suffered a heart attack at his residence this morning.

Though he was taken to the Maharajgunj-based Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for treatment, doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

After receiving the news of his death, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, and Speaker Devraj Ghimire among other leaders had reached the hospital.

Nembang’s journey from National Assembly member to Constituent Assembly Chairman

Nembang (70) was born at Suntalibari in Ilam Municipality-7 on March 11, 1953. He entered politics from All Nepal National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), student wing of the UML.

Though he was a teacher and a lawyer, he made his career in politics. He has continuously been winning the election from Ilam-2 since 1999.

Prior to that, he was elected as a member of the National Assembly.

Nembang became the Minister of State for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs in 1994. Then he became General Administration and Local Development Minister.

He won the election from Ilam-2 in 1999.

Nembang became the Speaker on May 13, 2006.

After that, he held the same responsibility from January 17, 2007 to May 27, 2008. He was elected from Ilam-2 in the Constituent Assembly election.

He became the Constituent Assembly member and Speaker from July 27, 2008 to May 27, 2012 and from February 18, 2014 to October 14, 2015.

He also won the election to the second Constituent Assembly of 2013 from Ilam-2.

Nembang won the election of 2017 and 2022 from the same constituency.

The UML Vice-Chairman Nembang had also become the candidate for the presidential election held in February.

He was also elected as the President of the Public Accounts Committee in 1999.

Nembang also became the General Secretary of the Nepal Bar Association.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today said the alliance between the current ruling partners would continue for five years.

He made this remark while talking to mediapersons at the Biratnagar Airport.

PM Dahal, accompanied by leaders of the Socialist Front, an alliance of four leftist parties, reached Biratnagar to address a 'message assembly' of the Front.

The assembly was organized by the Front including the CPN (Maoist Center), the CPN (Unified Socialist), the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) led by Netra Bikram Chand.

CPN (US) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal, JSP Chairperson Upendra Yadav and the CPN General Secretary Netra Bikram Chand 'Biplav' are scheduled to address the meeting.

Janata Samajbadi Party Chairman Upendra Yadav has underlined the need of political cooperation and consensus to establish political stability in the Koshi Province.

Talking to media at Biratnagar Airport today, the leader insisted on the need of political stability in the province and of gearing up for addressing the people's issues.

He utilized the moment to say that the Socialist Front was formed on the advice of Nepali Congress and it would be supported by the party.

He described the NC and Socialist Front as mutual supporters, adding that such cooperation should be further promoted for the institutionalization of democracy, economic development, prosperity, federalism and the republic.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has directed Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) to not stop electricity supply to the industries until the dispute over the tariff related to dedicated feeder and trunk line is resolved. He said a study is being carried out to resolve the dispute over the tariff.

PM Dahal telephoned NEA Managing Director Kulman Ghising and issued this directive following his meeting with a delegation of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) led by its president Chandra Prasad Dhakal at the Prime Minister's official residence at Baluwatar today.

On the occasion, the Prime Minister assured that he would take initiatives to sort out the dispute at the earliest by keeping the FNCCI, the Electricity Regulation Commission and NEA at one place.

The NEA had on September 3 issued a notice requiring the industries to pay within 15 days their outstanding electricity tariff of the dedicated feeder and trunk line. It had cautioned the industries that electricity supply would be stopped if they failed to clear the due tariff amount within the deadline.

FNCCI has suggested to the government that special initiatives were needed to protect the industries in the present time of economic crisis when they are operating at less than 40 percent of their capacity.

"We need support and cooperation at the present time. Our demand is that more problems should not be created," said the FNCCI president Dhakal. FNCCI says the industries and businesses are facing continued crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic and the entrepreneurs would be further discouraged if power supply is cut in such a situation.