Bagmati Provincial Assembly

Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province

बागमती प्रदेश सभा
Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province ; बागमती प्रदेश सभा
1st Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province
	Coat of arms or logo Emblem of Bagmati Pradesh
Type
Type	Unicameral legislature of Bagmati Province
History
New session started	February 1, 2018
Leadership
Speaker	Sanu Kumar Shrestha, NCP ; since 10 February 2018
Deputy Speaker	Radhika Tamang, NCP ; since 11 February 2018
Leader of the House ; (Chief Minister)	Dormani Poudel, NCP ; since 9 February 2018
Leader of Opposition	Indra Bahadur Baniya, NC ; since 15 February 2018
Structure
Political groups	Government (56) CPN(UML) (56); Opposition (23) NC : 22; Ind.: 1 (joined NC); Other Opposition (31) CPN (Maoist Centre) (23); BSP: 3; NMKP: 2; RPP: 2; Vacant-1;
Length of term	5 years
Elections
Voting system	Mixed member majoritarian: 66 seats - FPtP; 44 seats - PR;
Last election	26 November and 7 December 2017
Next election	2022
Meeting place
	Regional Educational Directorate, Hetauda, Makwanpur
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 legislative 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 Party which had a supermajority in the assembly.^[5]

List of Assemblies

Election Year	Assembly	Start of term	End of term	Chief Minister	Speaker
2017	First Assembly	1 February 2018	Incumbent	Dor Mani Poudel (NCP) (Cabinet)	Sanu Kumar Shrestha (NCP)

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
bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party	Dormani Poudel	80
bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress	Indra Bahadur Baniya	22
	Bibeksheel Sajha Party	Ramesh Paudyal	3
	Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party	Surendra Raj Gosai	2
	Rastriya Prajatantra Party	Rita Majhi	2
bgcolor="Template:Independent/meta/color" \|	Independent		1
Total			110

Current Leaders

Speaker

Speaker of the Provincial Assembly: Hon. Sanu Kumar Shrestha^[3]
- Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly: Radhika Tamang^[6]

Parliamentary Party leaders

Leader of the House (Nepal Communist Party)
- Hon. Dormani Paudel^[7] (until 30 December 2020)
- Ashta Laxmi Shakya^[8] (from 30 December 2020)
  - Deputy Parliamentary Party Leader: Salik Ram Jamkattel^[9] (until 29 December 2020)
Leader of Opposition (Nepali Congress): Indra Bahadur Baniya^[10]

Whips

Government Chief Whip (Nepal Communist Party): Deepak Niraula
- Whip (Nepal Communist Party): Buddhiman Majhi^[9] (until 29 December 2020)
Opposition Chief Whip (Nepali Congress): Radha Ghale^[11]
- Whip (Nepali Congress): Chhiring Dorje Lama^[11]

List of members

Constituency (PR if blank)	Member	Party
	Aangdendi Lama	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 9(A)	Ajay Kranti Shakya	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Sindhupalchok 1(A)	Arun Prasad Nepal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Ashamaya Tamang	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 8(B)	Astha Laxmi Shakya	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Nuwakot 1(B)	Badri Mainali	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Balram Poudel	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Kathmandu 7(A)	Basanta Prasad Manandhar	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kavrepalanchok 2(B)	Basundhara Humagain	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Belimaiya Ghale	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Bhawana Subedi	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Bhimsen Khatri	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Chitwan 2(B)	Bijay Subedi	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Bijaya Shrestha (KC)	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Bijula Kumari Barma	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Sindhuli 2(A)	Binod Kumar Khadka	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Biraj Bhakta Shrestha		Bibeksheel Sajha Party
Dolakha 1(A)	Bishal Khadka	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Sindhuli 2(B)	Buddhi Man Majhi	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kavrepalanchok 1(B)	Chandra Bahadur Lama	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Lalitpur 1(B)	Chetnath Sanjel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 3(A)	Chhiring Dorje Lama	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Chitwan 1(A)	Dawa Dorje Lama	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Debaki Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Dinesh Maharjan	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 5(B)	Deepak Niraula	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 1(A)	Dipendra Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Makwanpur 1(B)	Dormani Poudel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Dr Rajaram Karki Chhetri	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Kathmandu 1(B)	Ganesh Prasad Dulal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Chitwan 2(A)	Ghanashyam Dahal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Gita Wagle	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Goma Bhurtel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Lalitpur 2(B)	Gyanendra Shakya	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Himali Gole	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Nuwakot 2(B)	Hiranath Khatiwada	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Makwanpur 2(B)	Indra Bahadur Baniya	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Indramaya Gurung	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Dhading 2(B)	Jagat Bahadur Simkhada	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Jeevan Dangol	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Lalitpur 3(B)	Jivan Khadka	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Junelimaya Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Ramechhap 1(B)	Kailash Prasad Dhungel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Kalpana Nepali	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Kanchan Khanal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 9(B)	Keshav Prasad Pokharel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Nuwakot 2(A)	Keshav Raj Pandey	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 6(A)	Keshav Sthapit	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Bhaktapur 1(A)	Krishna Lal Bhandel	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Chitwan 3(A)	Krishna Prasad Bhurtel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Chitwan 1(B)	Krishna Prasad Sharma Khanal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Makwanpur 2(A)	Kumari Moktan	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 4(B)	Kusum Kumar Karki	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Lalitpur 1(A)	Lal Kumari Pun	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kavrepalanchok 2(A)	Laxman Lamsal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Sindhuli 1(A)	Lekhnath Dahal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Lalitpur 2(A)	Madhav Prasad Paudel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Maina Achhami	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 2(B)	Mani Ram Phuyal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Milanbabu Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Mina Gyawali (Nepal)	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Muni Sigdel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 5(A)	Narayan Bahadur Silwal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 4(A)	Narottam Vaidya	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Nhuchhe Narayan Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Sindhupalchok 2(B)	Nima Lama	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Om Bahadur Glan	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Parbati Silwal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Dolakha 1(B)	Vacant		Vacant
Rasuwa 1(A)	Prabhat Tamang	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Sindhuli 1(B)	Pradip Kumar Katuwal Chhetri (K.C)	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 7(B)	Prakash Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Pratima Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Makwanpur 1(A)	Prem Bahadur Pulami	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Rasuwa 1(B)	Prem Bahadur Tamang		Independent^[12]
Kathmandu 10(A)	Pukar Maharjan	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Rachana Khadka	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Radha Ghale	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Nuwakot 1(A)	Radhika Tamang	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Lalitpur 3(A)	Raj Kaji Maharjan	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Rajani Amatya	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
	Rajendra Gurung	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Bhaktapur 2(B)	Rajendra Man Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Dhading 1(A)	Rajendra Prasad Pandey	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 8(A)	Rajesh Shakya	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Dhading 2(A)	Ram Kumar Adhikari	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Chitwan 3(B)	Ram Lal Mahato	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 10(B)	Rama Ale Magar	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Ramesh Poudyal		Bibeksheel Sajha Party
Kathmandu 3(B)	Rameshwor Phuyal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kavrepalanchok 1(A)	Ratna Prasad Dhakal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Reena Gurung		Rastriya Prajatantra Party
	Rita Majhi		Rastriya Prajatantra Party
Dhading 1(B)	Salik Ram Jamkattel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Santa Bahadur Praja	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Kathmandu 2(A)	Sanu Kumar Shrestha	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Saraswoti Basnet	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Saraswoti Bati	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Sindhupalchok 1(B)	Saresh Nepal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Ramechhap 1(A)	Shanti Prasad Paudel	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Shanti Thing	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Bhaktapur 2(A)	Shashi Jung Thapa	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Shova Shakya		Bibeksheel Sajha Party
	Sita Adhilari	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Sita Lama	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
	Srijana Sayaju		Nepal Workers Peasants Party
Bhaktapur 1(B)	Surendra Raj Gosai		Nepal Workers Peasants Party
	Urmila Karmacharya	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Kathmandu 6(B)	Yogendra Raj Shangraula	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Sindhupalchok 2(A)	Yuvaraj Dulal	bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	Nepal Communist Party
Source: Election Commission of Nepal

By-elections

Constituency (PR if blank)	Previous member	Party		Date seat vacated	Cause of vacation	New member	Party
Bhaktapur 1(A)	Harisharan Lamichhane	rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Nepal Communist Party/meta/color" \|	CPN(UML)	14 May 2018	Death^[13]	Krishna Lal Bhandel	bgcolor="Template:Nepali Congress/meta/color" \|	Nepali Congress
Dolakha 1(B)	Pashupati Chaulagain	12 May 2021	CPN(UML)	Death^[14]

References

^ "Poudel sworn in as Prov 3 CM". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
^ "First session of Province 3 assembly to begin next week". OnlineKhabar English News. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
^ ^a ^b "Sanu Kumar Shrestha elected State Assembly Speaker of Province 3". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-10. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
^ "Tamang elected deputy speaker of Province 3 unopposed". Setopati. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
^ "UML, Maoist Centre to unify; strike seven point agreement". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
^ "Tamang unanimously elected deputy speaker of Province-3". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
^ "Dor Mani Poudel elected UML PP leader". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
^ Republica. "NCP's Dahal-Nepal faction picks Ashta Laxmi Shakya as provincial parliamentary party leader of Bagmati". My Republica. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
^ ^a ^b "CM Paudel dismisses deputy parliamentary party leader and party's whip". The Himalayan Times. 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
^ "Indra Bahadur Baniya elected NC PP leader of Province 3". Retrieved 2018-03-27.
^ ^a ^b Republica. "Radha Ghale appointed Province 3 NC PP chief whip". My Republica. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
^ Joined NC but remained as independent.
^ "Province 3 lawmaker Lamichhane dies". Retrieved 2018-11-11.
^ "UML leader Pashupati Chaulagain dies of Covid-19". OnlineKhabar English News. Retrieved 2021-06-27.

[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. Retrieved 2020-12-30.

[:0-3] "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] "Tamang unanimously elected deputy speaker of Province-3". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-11. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

[7] "Dor Mani Poudel elected UML PP leader". The Himalayan Times. 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2018-03-27.

[8] Republica. "NCP's Dahal-Nepal faction picks Ashta Laxmi Shakya as provincial parliamentary party leader of Bagmati". My Republica. Retrieved 2020-12-30.

[:1-9] "CM Paudel dismisses deputy parliamentary party leader and party's whip". The Himalayan Times. 2020-12-29. Retrieved 2020-12-30.

[10] "Indra Bahadur Baniya elected NC PP leader of Province 3". Retrieved 2018-03-27.

[:2-11] Republica. "Radha Ghale appointed Province 3 NC PP chief whip". My Republica. Retrieved 2020-12-30.

[12] Joined NC but remained as independent.

[13] "Province 3 lawmaker Lamichhane dies". Retrieved 2018-11-11.

[14] "UML leader Pashupati Chaulagain dies of Covid-19". OnlineKhabar English News. Retrieved 2021-06-27.

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