Kathmandu, July 11 -- The ruling Nepal Communist Party's rigid stance against the formation of a probe panel to investigate into two incidents of death in Sarlahi district led to the obstruction of the House of Representatives meeting for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.

Following Tuesday's obstruction by the Nepali Congress and Rastriya Janata Party Nepal, Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara had called a business advisory committee meeting in an attempt to forge a consensus on demands of the two opposition parties.

The two parties are demanding a parliamentary probe committee to investigate into the deaths of Kumar Paudel, the district chief of the banned Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand, and Saroj Narayan Mahato, ...