National Assembly: The hoax of expert and Inclusive members.
National Assembly also known as Rastriya Sabha (राष्ट्रिय शभा) is one of the two houses of The Parliament of Nepal. Currently, the national assembly consists of 59 members along with the chairperson who have tenure of 6 years with every 1/3 members retiring on 2 years cycles.
The purpose of the National assembly is to include experts and professionals form each and every field insuring inclusiveness in law making process since the members elected in Lower House of the parliament may lack representatives from all kind of subject-matter experts as they come form the main stream politics only. So, National Assembly is like a oversight over the Lower House during Law making process.
But as per the current scenario, the theme of expert and inclusiveness of the National Assembly seems hoax. The members nominated in the national assembly currently are the ones who lost the election of lower house, or the ones who didn't get chance in other areas are sent by parties to balance their politicians. So, the current National Assembly has been like the old age home consisting of aged leaders and politicians form various parties just as power balance within their parties. So, there is need in rapid reform of this nature of the National Assembly.
To address this National Assembly should be formed, including experts with a minimum educational qualification or at least 8-10 years of professional experience, ensuring inclusive representation. Lower house being 77 members representing each district, the national assembly can be 23 members making total legislatures 100.
Additionally, to reduce the number of VIP positions, the Chairperson of the National Assembly can serve as the Vice President who is functional just in case of absence of President as the head of state.
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