Kathmandu, Sept. 6 -- Three weeks after resigning as a chair of the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the lower house on moral grounds, Nepali Congress lawmaker Ramhari Khatiwada was appointed chair of the Parliamentary Hearing Committee unopposed on Friday.

The position had been vacant after its previous chair, Ishwari Devi Neupane, resigned to take charge of the State Affairs Committee vacated by Khatiwada. Neupane was elected unopposed to the lower house committee as opposition parties did not field any candidate against her.

Khatiwada had resigned on August 12 after a parliamentary special committee investigating the tampering in the "cooling-off period" provision of the Federal Civil Service Bill, 2024, held him and se...