Kathmandu, June 16 -- While lawmakers from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)-the fourth and the fifth largest parties in the House of Representatives, respectively-continued obstruction of the House on Sunday demanding Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak's resignation, Speaker Devraj Ghimire carried forward the scheduled business.

Before the House proceedings, Speaker Ghimire discussed the matter with RSP and RPP leaders, but there was no positive outcome.

The CPN (Maoist Centre), the main opposition that had been leading the obstruction of the House for the same reason, on Friday reached a two-point deal with the ruling Nepali Congress and CPN-UML to end the obstruction of Parliament that began on May ...