Janakpurdham, December 21
Ram Ashish Yadav of the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal has been elected as the Speaker of the Madhesh Province Assembly. In today’s assembly session, Yadav, the candidate of the seven-party alliance, won the election with 72 votes, while the opposition secured 24 votes. A total of 96 members of the assembly were present.
Deputy Speaker Babita Raut Ishwar, who was presiding over the assembly, announced Yadav’s election. The proposal to elect Ram Ashish Yadav as Speaker was submitted by Nepali Congress lawmaker Birendra Prasad Singh.
The motion to elect Yadav as Speaker was passed by a majority, and the rival candidate Triloki Prasad Yadav of the CPN-UML did not receive sufficient support.
Ram Ashish Yadav, representing Dhanusha Constituency No. 2 (Kha), is a second-term directly elected assembly member and also serves as the Chief Spokesperson of JSP Nepal.
Earlier, Ramchandra Mandal of CPN-UML, who had been the Speaker, was removed from the post on Mangsir 3 by a two-thirds majority of the seven-party alliance, citing misconduct. The position had remained vacant since then.
