RSP’s Indira Rana Magar files candidacy for House Deputy Speaker

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has fielded Indira Rana Magar as its candidate for Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR).

Indira Rana Magar, RSP parliamentarian, registered her candidacy for the Deputy Speaker on behalf of the ruling coalition at the Federal Parliament Secretariat on Friday afternoon.

Magar’s nomination was proposed by Rastriya Swatantra Party lawmaker Sobita Gautam and was seconded by CPN-UML’s Krishna Gopal Shrestha, CPN (Maoist Centre) lawmaker Narayani Sharma and Rastriya Prajatantra Party lawmaker and Deputy Prime Minister Rajendra Prasad Lingden.

The House of Representatives is conducting the election for the post on Saturday. The lower house elected the CPN-UML’s Dev Raj Ghimire the House Speaker on Thursday. He defeated Ishwari Neupane of the Nepali Congress.