19th session of National Assembly begins in Nepal

Key Highlights

• The National Assembly (NA), with 59 members, is the permanent house of the Parliament.
• President Ramchandra Paudel dissolved the House of Representatives, or the Lower House, in September last year at the recommendation of the prime minister, following the Gen Z movement.
• The Upper House remained intact.
• The tenure of the members of the Upper House is fixed for six years, and the term of one-third of the members of the house expires every two years.
• At present, there are 25 members from the Nepali Communist Party, 16 from the Nepali Congress and nine from CPN-UML, while the rest belong to smaller parties.