Makawanpur: – Keshav Raj Pandey, chief whip of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal Bagmati Pradesh, said that the meeting of the state assembly could not proceed as the draft procedure committee did not submit its report.

He said that the report was not finalized even though the working committee had prepared the report after discussion and the report had not been received by the Speaker Sanukumar Shrestha.

After receiving the report of the Drafting Committee, the Speaker sends the report to the Working Arrangement Advisory Committee for necessary discussion. There is an arrangement for the working system advisory committee to submit the report to the parliament with its opinion.

Talking to TuKhabar, Pandey, who is also a member of the Rules Drafting Committee, said that preparations are being made to submit the report to Speaker Shrestha soon after holding necessary discussions and added that the meeting has been postponed as Nepali Congress had demanded time for the voting.

‘The CPN is not legally divided. In such a situation, the Congress is worried that it will lose the existence of the main opposition when it votes for the ruling CPN. That is why they are demanding time,”he said.

Chief Whip Pandey said that there is no possibility of voting on the no-confidence motion due to lack of consensus and cooperation among the major political parties.

After the CPN split politically, 45 MPs from Prachanda-Madhav faction have filed a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Dormani Paudel at the Provincial Assembly Secretariat which has been tabled in the parliament.

As the meeting of the state assembly resumed, there is no other topic to be discussed except no-confidence motion, so that the speaker has been postponing continuously in the pressure of the government.

Stating that the speaker had postponed the meeting under the pressure of the government, she also accused the speaker of being a helpless shadow of the Shrestha minority government.

The ruling party has 80 members from the ruling CPN, 22 from the Congress, two from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, two from the Nepal Mazdur Kisan Party, three from the Vibekshil Saja Party and one independent member in the state assembly.

The main opposition party, the Nepali Congress, is in a crucial role in perpetuating the government led by Chief Minister Paudel, but the Congress is still in a dilemma.

The seventh session meeting of the state assembly scheduled for Magh-19 was postponed by the speaker till 2 pm on Phalgun-5. After posting the notice at 6:35 am on Phalgun-5, the Speaker again adjourned the meeting of the Provincial Assembly indefinitely.