Six-year tenure of 20 upper house members ending in March

KATHMANDU: Twenty members of the National Assembly, including Chair Ganesh Prasad Timilsina, are completing their six-year tenure on March 4.

They belong to a group of members whose six-year tenure was decided through a lucky draw conducted on June 18, 2018. The tenure of National Assembly members varies from two to six years.

The upper house has 59 members. Of them, 19 have a two-year tenure, while 20 members have a four-year tenure, and the remaining 20 members have a six-year tenure.

The members completing their six-year tenure include National Assembly Chairperson Timilsina, as well as Anita Devkota, Jitendra Narayan Dev, Prakash Pantha, and Ramesh Jung Rayamajhi of the Nepali Congress; Indu Kadariya, Deepa Gurung, Dil Kumari Rawal, Kumar Dasaundi, Narapati Luwar, Bhairab Sundar Shrestha, and Ram Chandra Rai of the CPN-UML; Bina Pokharel, Mahesh Kumar Mahara, and Hariram Chaudhary of the CPN (Maoist-Centre); Pramila Kumari of the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), Nanda Chapain and Singa Bahadur Bishwakarma of the CPN (Unified Socialist), Dr. Khim Lal Devkota (Independent), and Dr. Bimala Paudyal, who was nominated by the President.

Among them, Dasaundi and Dr. Devkota were elected in the by-election held on February 8, 2023, for the remaining term following the resignation of Ram Bahadur Thapa and Khimlal Bhattarai.

The Election Commission has proposed to the government to hold the National Assembly election in January.