The Federal Parliament Secretariat is making preparations to administer the oath of office and secrecy to the newly elected lawmakers on December 22.
“We are preparing to administer the oath of office and secrecy in New Baneshwar at 1 pm on coming Thursday,” Dr. Roj Nath Pandey, the spokesperson of the Parliament Secretariat, told Nepalkhabar.
A total of 275 new members elected to the House of Representatives (HoR) in the general elections on November 20 will be administered in the Federal Parliament Building.
Issuing a seven-day deadline on Sunday, President Bidya Devi Bhandari called on the parities to stake their claim for the post of the Prime Minister by December 25.
The age of Chitra Bahadur KC, Mahantha Thakur, Mahendra Prasad Yadav and Pashupati Shamsher Rana among those elected as lawmakers is yet to be determined.
The eldest lawmaker will first be sworn-in by the President. Then he/she will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the rest of the lawmakers, according to the parliamentary rule.
If some lawmakers willing to take oath in their mother tongues, they have to inform the parliament secretariat about it three days prior to the oath-taking day.
As many as 46 lawmakers had taken the oath of office and secrecy in 11 mother tongues following the elections in 2074 BS.
They had taken oath in Maithili, Tharu, Bhojpuri, Magar, Abadhi, Nepal Bhasa, Banjika, Newari, Urdu and Tamang languages.
