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The Winter Session of the Lumbini Province Assembly is beginning today. 

The first meeting of the seventh session of the Lumbini Province Assembly is scheduled to convene at 1 pm today.

In today's meeting of the assembly, Speaker Tul Bahadur Gharti is scheduled to read out three letters received from the Office of the Province Chief, Secretary of Province Assembly Durlav Kumar Punmagar said.  

The letters are regarding the seventh session of the province assembly; reshuffle of the council of ministers, and the authentication of different bills approved from the sixth session of the province assembly. 

In today's meeting, the province assembly members are scheduled to put their views on behalf of their respective political parties. 

For this session of the province assembly, some bills including the one made to amend the Facilities of District Assembly and District Coordination Committee Act, 2075 BS have been registered in the province assembly secretariat. 

Likewise, the council of ministers has approved some more bills to table in the province assembly in this session. 

Minister for Communications and Information Technology Jagadish Kharel has expressed confidence that all political parties will participate in the House of Representatives (HoR) elections scheduled for March 5.

Addressing a program at Kalinag Secondary School in Kalinchowk-8 in Dolakha district on Sunday, Minister Kharel said that a favourable environment for polls has been created, adding that this message should be spread across the country.

"The major responsibility of this government is to hold elections. The government is ready for holding polls and all political parties are taking part," Kharel added.

Likewise, Minister Kharel stated that the government was working to maintain good governance in the country. 

This government has accorded priority to the tasks of good governance by curbing corruption, according to Kharel.

The Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party was announced on Sunday.

The party was announced with the unification of Baburam Bhattarai-led Nepal Samajwadi Party (Naya Shakti), Janardan Sharma’s Pragatisheel Rastriya Abhiyan, and Santosh Pariyar, who recently left the Rastriya Swatantra Party, at a program organized in Kathmandu this afternoon.

The leaders have stated that progressive socialism is the party’s guiding principle and its election symbol is an eye.

It has been said that the party will have 151 central members.

Youths hurled water balloons and sprayed paint on the vehicle of CPN-UML leader and former minister Mahesh Basnet in Biratnagar on Sunday.

He was on his way to take part in a program in Itahari when the incident occurred this morning.

The youths also chanted slogans against Basnet.

Meanwhile, police have arrested two persons for their alleged involvement in the incident.

The suspects have been identified as Arpit Kunwar (19) of Biratnagar-2 and Sanjog Gautam (25) of Biratnagar-1.

The situation is normal now.

Following the incident, police have tightened the security.

Earlier too, Gen Z youths had staged a demonstration outside Simara Airport when UML General Secretary Shankar Pokharel and Basnet were scheduled to arrive in Simara to participate in a program.