Subash Chandra Nembang has been appointed deputy leader of the CPN-UML’s Parliamentary Party on Wednesday. A joint meeting of UML’s federal parliament and National Assembly members at the prime minister’s official residence in Baluwatar made the decision. 

Former speaker of Parliament Nembang had also held the position of deputy leader of the UML Parliamentary Party in the earlier Legislature-Parliament. Prime Minister and party’s Parliamentary Party leader KP Sharma Oli had proposed the post of deputy Parliamentary Party leader to Nembang during the meeting on Wednesday. 

Nembang was elected as the federal parliament member from Ilam-2 in recently concluded the federal parliament elections. Similarly, Khag Raj Adhikari and Shanta Chaudhary have been appointed chief whip and whip of the party respectively.