KATHMANDU, Dec 22: The State Affairs Committee under the Legislature-Parliament has formed an 11-member sub-committee for carrying out detailed study of the three proposed election-related bills.
The election-related bills under consideration of the Committee include: the Bill Designed to Amend and Integrate Laws Related to the Works, Dities and Responsibilities of the Election Commission-2016; the Bill Designed to Amend and Integrate Laws Related to the Political Parties -2016 and the Bill Designed to Amend and Integrate Laws Related to the Voters List-2016.
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The sub-committee has been given 15 days to carry out detailed study of these three proposed bills and give suggestions to the committee.
A meeting of the Committee today formed the sub-committee comprising Ananda Dhungana, Ishwari Neupane and Ram Krishna Yadav representing the Nepali Congress; Ganga Lal Tuladhar, Man Prasad Khatri and Rameshwar Phuyal from the CPN (UML); Rekha Sharma and Santa Kumar Darai from the CPN (Maoist Centre), Dharmendra Sah Teli from the Tarai-Madhes-centric parties; Bikram Bahadur Thapa from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Prem Suwal from the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party representing the fringe parties.
Likewise, the meeting extended by 15 days the term of the sub-committee constituted to prepare the Committee's annual report, the sub-committee constituted to study the Social Conduct Reforms Act-2016, the sub-committee to look into the Tikapur incident and the sub-committee constituted to study the Armed Police Force Regulations. RSS
