Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal has said that the arrangements for managing 'urgent time' in the House of Representatives (HoR) would be made more systematic in the coming days after discussion in the Business Advisory Committee.
The Speaker said so as some more MPs stood up to speak when he was about to initiate the 'zero hour'. Earlier, some lawmakers had aired their views on contemporary issues during the ‘urgent time’, whose allocated duration had already elapsed in today’s meeting of the HoR.
Speaker Aryal later urged the MPs who wanted to speak in the 'urgent time' to sit.
After MPs Rajendra Kumar Rai, Balawati Sharma and others stood up from their seats to speak, the Speaker reminded the House that there is a parliamentary practice where one can request and be granted time to speak on highly important events and issues affecting the lives of the people of the country that have arisen between the end of the previous meeting and the current one.
He further said that if the issues raised by MPs do not seem sensitive, the Speaker may choose not to allot time for them.
Speaker Aryal then gave time to additional members than the designated ones to speak during the urgent time, as the members remained standing and did not sit.
