The Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province also known as the Bagmati Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: वाग्मती प्रदेश सभा) is a

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governing and law making body of

Bagmati Province Bagmati Province (, ''Bāgmatī pradēśa'') is one of the seven Provinces of Nepal, provinces of Nepal established by the constitution of Nepal. Bagmati is Nepal's second-most populous province and fifth largest province by area. It is bordered ...

, one of the seven provinces in Nepal. The assembly is seated in the provincial capital at Hetauda in

Makwanpur District Makwanpur District (; ), in Bagmati Province, earlier a part of Narayani Zone, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The city of Hetauda serves as the district headquarters and also as the provincial headquarters. The district covers a ...

at the Regional Educational Directorate Office. The assembly has 110 members of whom 66 are elected through

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and 44 of whom are elected through

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. 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

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. The current assembly was elected in November 2022.

History

The Provincial Assembly of Bagmati Province is formed under Article 175 of the

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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

alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Dormani Poudel from CPN (UML). The first meeting of the assembly was called by

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Anuradha Koirala for 1 February 2018. Sanu Kumar Shrestha from the CPN (UML) was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly, and Radhika Tamang from Maoist Centre was elected as the first deputy speaker. In May 2018, the two parties merged and formed the

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which had a

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in the assembly.

List of Assemblies

Committees

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

Current composition

References

{{Legislatures of Nepal Government of Bagmati Province Province legislatures of Nepal

History

List of Assemblies

Committees

Current composition

See also

References