Speaker Onsari Gharti on Tuesday formed a nine-member subcommittee to select the proposals registered by lawmakers for discussion in the Legislature-Parliament.

The panel of lawmakers will study the proposals registered in the Parliament Secretariat and recommend the House on the basis of their importance. The panel has two lawmakers each from the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML and one each from the CPN (Maoist Centre), the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, the Sanghiya Samajbadi Forum Nepal, the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum-Loktantrik and the RPP.

The subcommittee was formed on the suggestion of the parties’ chief whips that it is necessary to screen the proposals for discussion. “It is the parliamentary tradition to form such a panel,” said Babin Sharma, press advisor to the Speaker. Although lawmakers from various parties register the proposals of public importance and resolution motions demanding discussion in the House, not all become the agenda.

In January, a group of NC lawmakers led by Arjun Narsingh KC registered a motion of public importance, demanding immediate discussion, but it did not get priority. Similarly, a motion tabled by Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party lawmakers, demanding discussion on the Indian border blockade met the same fate.

A month ago, a proposal tabled by three lawmakers, including NC’s Gagan Thapa, calling for discussion on the impeachment to Chief Commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of  Abuse of Authority Lok Man Singh Karki failed to make headway.