The Provincial Assembly of Karnali Province also known as the Karnali Pradesh Sabha, () is a

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governing and law making body of

Karnali Province Karnali Province () is one of the seven federal provinces of Nepal formed by the new constitution, which was adopted on 20 September 2015. The total area of the province is , making it the largest province in Nepal with 18.97% of the country's ...

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

Birendranagar Birendranagar () officially Birendranagar Municipality is a city in Surkhet District in Karnali Province of Nepal. It is the capital city of Karnali Province, Karnali province as well as the district headquarter of Surkhet district. As of March ...

Surkhet District Surkhet District (, ) is a district in Karnali Province of mid-western Nepal. Surkhet is one of the ten districts of Karnali located about west of the national capital Kathmandu. The district's area is . It had 288,527 population in 2001 and 350 ...

at the Irrigation Division Office. The assembly has 40 members of whom 24 are elected through

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and 16 are elected through

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. The term of the assembly is 5 years unless dissolved earlier. The First Provincial Assembly was constituted in 2017, after the 2017 provincial elections. The current assembly was elected in November 2022.

History

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

Constitution of Nepal 2015 The Constitution of Nepal () is the present governing Constitution of Nepal. Nepal is governed according to the Constitution which came into effect on 20 September 2015, replacing the Interim Constitution of 2007. The constitution of Nepal is di ...

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 Karnali Province was conducted for 40 seats to the assembly. The election resulted in a victory for the

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and

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alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Mahendra Bahadur Shahi from Maoist Centre. The first meeting of the provincial assembly was held on 4 February 2018. Raj Bahadur Shahi from

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was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly, and Pushpa Ghari Bista from Maoist Centre as the first deputy speaker of the provincial 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

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History

List of assemblies

Committees

Current composition

See also

References