Parliament meeting postponed till 1 pm tomorrow

The meeting of the House of Representatives has been postponed till 1 pm tomorrow.

The meeting called for 1 pm today has been postponed for tomorrow due to a special reason, the Parliament Secretariat said.

It has been learnt that Speaker Devraj Ghimire postponed the meeting at the request of the government after the main opposition CPN-UML said that it would obstruct the meeting today.

The UML has been seeking answers from Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha in the one quantal gold smuggling case.

The UML had planned to seek answers from Home Minister Shrestha in the latest gold smuggling case in today’s meeting.

Earlier this morning, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli had held talks about removing the House obstruction.

Saying that the Prime Minister did not give a clear answer about the gold smuggling case during the meeting, the UML had said that it would not let the House proceed with its business today.