The ruling Nepal Communist Party’s lawmaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has been elected the speaker of House of Representatives (Lower House of Parliament) unanimously Sunday.
Mahanta Thakur, who was chairing the House of Representatives meeting today as the senior-most member, announced his election on Sunday afternoon.
Nepal Communist Party’s lawmaker Subaschandra Nembang had proposed his name for the Speaker which was seconded by party’s lawmakers Dev Bahadur Gurung and Ms. Onsari Gharti Magar and the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal’s Parliament Member Laxman Lal Karna.
Born on March 7, 1958 in Kubhinde of Sindhupalchowk district Agni Prasad Sapkota is a Nepali politician hails from a low-middle-class peasant family.
He is a third time elected member (election held on December 2017) in the House from his constituency in Sindhupalchowk district. From the same constituency he had been elected to the House of Representatives in 2008 and 2013.
He is a Standing Committee member, of the Nepal Communist Party who had also served as a Minister for Information and Communication from May to July 2011.
Agni Sapkota started his political life in 1975 as a student activist. He took the communist party membership in 1978 and became a full-time political activist in 1991.
Sapkota was a member along with Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Top Bahadur Rayamajhi in a dialogue team formed by the Maoist Party to hold the Peace Talk with the then government in 2001.
However, a murder case was filed against Agni Sapkota in the Supreme Court of Nepal on 2011 June 20. But, a final verdict has not been reached yet and the case is currently subjudice.
