KATHMANDU, Jan. 22 -- Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Agni Prasad Sapkota is all set to be elected speaker of the lower house of parliament unopposed as no other lawmaker contested against his candidacy.
A meeting of the House of Representatives on Sunday is scheduled to formally announce his election to the post.
Sapkota, who is accused of in the murder of Arjun Bahadur Lama of Kavrepalanchowk in 2005 after his abduction, is set to be elected unopposed after the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) decided not to field candidate against Sapkota in the hope of getting support from the NCP for its candidate for the post of deputy speaker.
NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba in a parliamentary party executive committee meeting told the part...