Kathmandu, Jan. 29 -- The winter session of the House of Representatives is set to start on Friday. The House was prorogued on September 16 upon completing the budget session.

The winter session is set to provide the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), the fourth largest in the House, a sobering reminder of the absence of its leader Rabi Lamichhane from Parliament.

On December 22, the District Government Attorney Office in Kaski filed cases against Lamichhane and 30 other individuals at the Kaski District Court in connection with the Suryadarshan Cooperative fraud case. The next day, the House suspended Lamichhane's lawmaker position. Since then, the RSP has been without the parliamentary party leader.

Even if RSP appointed Dol Prasad (DP)...