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President Bidya Devi Bhandari sent the bill to amend the Citizenship Act back to the Parliament for reconsideration on Sunday.

Sagar Aryal, spokesperson at the President's office, said that the President sent the bill on Citizenship Act back to the Parliament citing that it needs reconsideration.

He said that the bill on Nepal Citizenship Act, 2063 was submitted before the President for the certification as per the Article 113 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal.

Earlier, the bill was endorsed from the Parliament as per the Article 113 (3) of the Constitution.

Netra Bikram Chand-led Communist Party of Nepal spokesperson Khadga Bahadur Bishwokarma left for China on Sunday.

He left for Chengdu at the invitation of the Chinese Communist Party at 12:45 pm on Air China flight CA 438 today.

The Lalitpur District Court, a few days ago, had issued an arrest warrant against Chand and Bishwokarma among other leaders on the charge of possessing arms, crimes against the state and detonating Improvised Explosive Devices.

Though the arrest warrant was issued against him on August 1, he left for China via the Tribhuvan International Airport.

TIA Chief DIG Shyam Gyawali said that he was unaware about Bishwokarma's departure to China,

Madhes Province Chief Minister Lalbabu Raut along with other ministers staged a sit-in on the premises of the office of Province Chief in Janakpur from Sunday demanding adjustment of police force.

Home and Communications Minister Bharat Prasad Sah said that the sit-in will be continued for a week against the federal government.

Chief Minister Raut said that they were compelled to stage the sit-in after the federal government turned a blind eye to their demand of adjusting the police force despite repeated requests.

He claimed that the Madhes government took this step for the successful implementation of federalism.

“It is not possible to develop the province without its own police administration,” Chief Minister Raut said, adding, “As per the constitution, the province government has been given the authority to maintain peace and security. The protest will be continued until the federal government gives the rights provided by the constitution of the province.”

Chief Minister Raut, Home and Communications Minister Bharat Prasad Sah, Energy and Drinking Water Development Minister Om Prakash Sharma, Physical Infrastructure Development Minister Ram Saroj Yadav, Home and Communications State Minister Rubi Kumiar Karna, Province Assembly members Sailesh Yadav, Chameli Devi Das, Saraswati Chaudhary and Pramila Devi Das had participated in the sit-in.

A meeting of the Legislature-Parliament has been postponed due to lack of quorum.

Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota announced that the meeting has been postponed as the lawmakers present in the meeting stood at 67 which should be 69.

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma had presented the Public Debt Management Bill, 2079 for discussion during the meeting today.

During the meeting, lawmaker Prem Suwal demanded that the number of lawmakers be counted.

Later, Speaker Sapkota ordered the Parliament Secretariat staffers to count the number.

The staffers did and found that only 67 lawmakers were present in the meeting.

Consequently, Speaker Sapkota announced that the meeting has been postponed.

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday.