The Legislature-Parliament meeting that was scheduled for 1 pm on Thursday has been put off until Sunday. The parliament was scheduled to discuss over the impeachment motion against Chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, Lokman Singh Karki.

Issuing a statement on Thursday morning, the parliament secretariat informed that that the next meeting would take place at 11 am on Sunday. Sources said the House Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar postponed the meeting on behest of leaders of three major parties.

Speaker Gharti Magar has also postponed her visit to Geneva scheduled to begin on Friday, according to Babin Sharma, Speaker’s press advisor. Sharma said that the meeting was deferred due to “political reasons”.

On Wednesday, as many as 157 lawmakers from the governing CPN (Maoist Centre) and the main opposition CPN-UML had registered an impeachment motion against Lokman Singh Karki, chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), at the Parliament Secretariat.