565 lawmakers take oath of office
KATHMANDU, JAN 22 -
Newly-elected Constituent Assembly members took the oath of office and secrecy on Tuesday. Oldest lawmaker Surya Bahadur Thapa, 85, presided over the ceremony.
Out of the total 575 lawmakers, 565 were present. The five who remained absent are Abhishek Pratap Shah, Narayan Khadka, Pradip Giri, Bansidhar Mishra and Subarna Jwarchan.
Four other seats were vacant as there were four lawmakers winning from two constituencies.
Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala, senior NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, senior CPN-UML leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, and UML Vice-chairman Bam Dev Gautam will have to pick one of the two constituencies and a new lawmaker will have to be elected through by-polls in each of the vacated constituencies.
Former Prime Minister Thapa was administered the oath by President Ram Baran Yadav on Monday. As per the CA rule, the oldest lawmaker chairs the meeting until the new chairperson is elected.
The ceremony started at eleven past noon—after a delay of around 40 minutes—and lasted around six minutes. The new CA has seen many new faces. The youngest of them is Sarita Yadav, 25, of Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Ganatantrik. She is the wife of party Chairman Rajkishore Yadav.
According to Secretariat spokesperson Mukunda Sharma, 44 lawmakers took oath of office in their respective mother tongues. The lawmakers were asked to get a copy of the oath in the language of their choice and were allowed to submit the copy at the last hour unlike in 2008 when they had to submit it three days in advance.
This CA witnessed a father administering the oath to a son. Among the lawmakers to be sworn in by Surya Bahadur was his son Sunil Thapa. Similarly, three couples have made it to the CA , including NC senior leader Deuba and his wife Aarjoo and UML leader Amrit Bohara and his wife Astha Laxmi Shakya.
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