The Koshi Provincial Assembly also known as the Koshi Pradesh Sabha, (Nepali: कोशी प्रदेश सभा) is the

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legislature of

Koshi Province Koshi Province () is an autonomous Provinces of Nepal, province of Nepal adopted by the Constitution of Nepal on 20 September 2015. It covers an area of , about 17.5% of the country's total area. With the industrial city of Biratnagar as its cap ...

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

Biratnagar Biratnagar () is a List of cities in Nepal, metropolitan city in Nepal, which serves as the capital of Koshi Province. With a Metropolitan Urban Agglomeration population of 244,750 as per the 2021 Nepal census, 2021 census, it is the largest c ...

in Morang District at the District Coordination Committee Office. The assembly has 93 members of whom 56 are elected through

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and 37 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 Province No. 1 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 Province No. 1 was conducted for 93 seats to the assembly. The election resulted in a victory for the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and

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alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Sher Dhan Rai from

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. The first meeting of the provincial assembly was held on 5 February 2018. Pradeep Kumar Bhandari from

was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly, and Saraswoti Pokharel 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

{{Legislatures of Nepal Province legislatures of Nepal Government of Koshi Province

History

List of assemblies

Committees

Current composition

See also

References