Nepal President Calls Parliament Session On January 9

Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Tuesday called the first session of the new Parliament on January 9 after the country went to polls on November 20. ??
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This will be the first Parliament session after the appointment of Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" as the new prime minister of the landlocked nation on Monday.
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President's Office spokesperson Sagar Acharya said the session will be held under Article 93 (1) of the Constitution.
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The first cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Prachanda on Monday recommended the president for calling the new parliament session. ?
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Prachanda was on Monday sworn in as the Prime Minister of Nepal for the third time, a day after the former guerrilla leader dramatically walked out of the pre-poll alliance led by the Nepali Congress and joined hands with opposition leader K P Sharma Oli. ?
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The 68-year-old CPN-Maoist Centre chairman was appointed as the country's new prime minister on Sunday after he submitted a letter to President Bhandari showing the support of 169 members in the 275-member House of Representatives.
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President Bhandari administered the oath to other cabinet members of the new coalition government on Monday.?
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The new cabinet has three deputy prime ministers - Bishnu Paudel from Oli's Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist–Leninist (CPN-UML), Narayan Kaji Shrestha from CPN-Maoist Centre, and Rabi Lamichhane from Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP).