Bagmati Provincial Assembly

बागमती प्रदेश सभा
2nd Bagmati Provincial Assembly
Type
Type
History
Founded2018
New session started
2 January 2023 (2023-01-02)
Leadership
Bhuwan Kumar Pathak, RPP
since 13 January 2023
Apsara Chapagain Khatri, UML
since 17 January 2023
Leader of the House
Jagannath Thapaliya, UML
since 9 April 2023
Structure
Political groups
Government (75)
  •   Congress: 37
  •   CPN (MC): 21
  •   CPN (US): 7

Confidence & supply (2)

Opposition (43)

Length of term
5 years
Elections
Parallel voting:
  • 66 seats – FPtP
  • 44 seats – PR
First election
2017
Last election
20 November 2022
Next election
2027
Meeting place
Regional Educational Directorate,
Hetauda, Makwanpur District
Website
pradeshsabha.p3.gov.np
Constitution
Constitution of Nepal

The Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province also known as the Bagmati Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: वाग्मती प्रदेश सभा) is a unicameral governing and law making body of Bagmati Province, one of the seven provinces in Nepal. The assembly is seated in the provincial capital at Hetauda in Makwanpur District at the Regional Educational Directorate Office. The assembly has 110 members of whom 66 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 44 of whom are elected through proportional representation. The term of the assembly is five years unless dissolved earlier.

The present First Provincial Assembly was constituted in 2017 after the 2017 provincial elections. The election resulted in a majority for the alliance of CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and CPN (Maoist Centre). The next election will take place when the five-year term ends by November 2022.

History

The Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province is formed under Article 175 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 which guarantees a provincial legislature for each province in the country. The first provincial elections were conducted for all seven provinces in Nepal and the elections in Bagmati Province was conducted for 110 seats to the assembly. The election resulted in a victory for the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and CPN (Maoist Centre) alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Dormani Poudel from CPN (UML).[1] The first meeting of the assembly was called by Governor Anuradha Koirala for 1 February 2018.[2] Sanu Kumar Shrestha from the CPN (UML) was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly,[3] and Radhika Tamang from Maoist Centre was elected as the first deputy speaker.[4] In May 2018, the two parties merged and formed the Nepal Communist Partywhich had a supermajority in the assembly.[5]

List of Assemblies

Election Year Assembly Start of term End of term Speaker Chief Minister Party
2017 1st Assembly 1 February 2018 September 2022 Sanu Kumar Shrestha Dor Mani Poudel
(Cabinet)		 CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist)
Astalaxmi Shakya
(Cabinet)
Rajendra Prasad Pandey
(Cabinet)		 CPN (Unified Socialist)
2022 2nd Assembly 2 January 2023 Incumbent Bhuwan Kumar Pathak Shalikram Jamkattel
(Cabinet)		 CPN (Maoist Centre)

Committees

Article 195 of the Constitution of Nepal provides provincial assemblies the power to form special committees in order to manage working procedures.

S.No. Committee Membership
1 Provincial Affairs 22
2 Finance and Development 20
3 Public Accounts 20
4 Education, Health and Agriculture 20
5 Industry, Tourism and Environment 19

Current composition

Party Parliamentary party leader Seats[6]
Nepali Congress Bahadur Singh Lama 37
CPN (UML) Jagannath Thapaliya 27
CPN (Maoist Centre) Shalikram Jamkattel 21
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Udhhav Thapa 13
CPN (Unified Socialist) Krishna Prasad Sharma Khanal 7
Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party Surendra Raj Gosai 3
Hamro Nepali Party Shailendra Man Bajracharya 2
Total 110

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Poudel sworn in as Prov 3 CM". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  2. ↑ "First session of Province 3 assembly to begin next week". OnlineKhabar English News. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. ↑ "Sanu Kumar Shrestha elected State Assembly Speaker of Province 3". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-10. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  4. ↑ "Tamang elected deputy speaker of Province 3 unopposed". Setopati. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  5. ↑ "UML, Maoist Centre to unify; strike seven point agreement". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  6. ↑ "वाग्मती प्रदेश : सत्तारुढ गठबन्धनलाई बहुमत". ekantipur.com (in Nepali). Retrieved 2022-12-06.
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