Kathmandu, April 10 (IANS) Rubi Kumari Thakur, 26, has been elected as the Deputy Speaker of Nepal’s House of Representatives (HoR) on Friday, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the position as the country’s politics witnesses a generational shift.A lawmaker in the lower house elected through the proportional representation system from the Shram Sanskriti Party, Thakur secured the post with backing from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and other parties. Given that the RSP commands …
Latest Dol Prasad Aryal News & Updates
Kathmandu, April 5 (IANS) Dol Prasad Aryal, vice-president of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), was declared elected Speaker of Nepal’s House of Representatives after emerging as the sole nominee for the post.At a meeting of the lower house on Sunday, senior-most lawmaker Arjun Narsingh KC formally announced Aryal’s unopposed election. He becomes the 10th Speaker of the lower house and the first non-communist to hold the post in nearly two decades.Given that the RSP holds a near two-thirds maj…