KATHMANDU: Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal’s Ganga Prasad Yadav was elected the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament unanimously.
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Yadav was elected unanimously to the post after Nepal Workers and Peasants Party withdrew the candidacy of its lawmaker Dilli Prasad Kafle.
Earlier, the House had elected UCPN-Maoist’s Onsari Gharti Magar to the post of Speaker.
Both Gharti and Yadav were backed by the ruling coalition, consisting of CPN-UML, UCPN-Maoist, Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum-Democratic and some fringe parties.
The main opposition Nepali Congress had also voted for them. Speaking at the House meeting, NC Vice-President Ram Chandra Paudel said the party decided to support Gharti and Yadav as the Speaker and Deputy Speaker should be impartial and neutral, and a unanimous election would help them be so.
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