Maoist Center nominates Gharti for Speaker of Province 5

BUTWAL, Feb 12: CPN (Maoist Center) has decided to nominate Purna Bahadur Gharti of Rukum to the post of Speaker of the provincial parliament of Province-5.

The Province Assembly of this province is electing the Speaker on February 14.

A meeting of the Maoist Center’s province assembly parliamentary party which continued till late night on Sunday took a decision to nominate Gharti for the post of Speaker, Krishna Dhoj Khadka of Pyuthan to the post of Deputy Leader, Dadhiram Neupane of Rupandehi to the post of Chief Whip and Dama Sharma of Dang to the post of Whip of its province parliamentary party.

A meeting of the Maoist Center’s province parliamentary party held earlier in the morning on Sunday has already elected Kul Prasad KC of Rolpa as its leader.