Cabinet meeting decides to introduce ordinance to swear in CA members

The meeting of the cabinet held for the first time after the Constituent Assembly (CA) election has decided to introduce an ordinance to swear in the members of CA since there is no legal provision as such, at present.

Concluding that the election had been held successfully, the cabinet also decided to form committees to probe violent incidents in Dang and Surkhet districts during election.

In Surkhet, a UML candidate had been murdered while in Dang, seven cadres of Maoists were killed when police opened fire.

The cabinet has also decided to hold seven party meeting. Since the cabinet had met after a long time, it took up over 40 agenda including providing financial relief to victims of Terai agitation.

The UML ministers, who have already resigned from their positions, did not attend Sunday's cabinet meeting held in Singhdurbar. nepalnews.com sd May 04 08