Karnali region has recently elected both Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
With the federalization of the country, Karnali province now has a female leader in both the Speaker and Deputy Speaker positions.
In other words, women have been elected as Speaker and Deputy Speaker of Karnali Province.
This is the first record that a woman has been elected as the speaker of the Provincial Assembly after the federalization of the country.
Before this, there is no history of a woman becoming Speaker in all the seven provinces of the country.
Onsari Gharti was the sixth Speaker of the House of Representatives. However, this is the first time that a woman has become Speaker in the province.
Speaker Nanda Gurung and Deputy Speaker Yashoda Neupane have created history by getting elected to such coveted positions of the province.
Nanda Gurung from the ruling party CPN-UML became the speaker in the election of the Speaker of the Provincial Assembly held on Sunday.
Also, Yashoda Neupane was elected from the ruling party CPN-Maoist Center in the election for the post of Deputy Speaker on Wednesday.
According to the power-sharing among the ruling alliance at the Center, the Chief Minister of Karnali Province was in the Maoist Center, the Speaker in the UML and the Deputy Speaker in the Maoist Center. Accordingly, the parties decided the candidates.
In the 40-member provincial assembly, there are 13 MPs from the CPN-Maoist Center, 10 MPs including the Speaker of the UML, 14 MPs from the Nepali Congress, 1 MP each from Rastriya Prajatantra Party and CPN Unified Socialists and 1 from the independent party.
Although the leaders have been fighting for other provincial assembly positions, male leaders have given opportunities for women in Karnali.
Karnali Parliament has created a new history this time due to the greed of men to become ministers of the province.
The parties that raise loud slogans of inclusiveness have limited the constitutional obligation of 33 percent participation of women to proportionality and have directly repeated the practice of the past in women's representation.
