KATHMANDU, March 11: Federal Parliament's Parliamentary Hearing Committee has proceeded ahead with the hearing of the proposed ambassador to the People's Republic of China, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey.
Today's meeting of the Committee has decided to issue a ten-day public notice to collect information, if there remain any grievances and complaints against the proposed candidate, according to Committee President Laxmanlal Karna.
It may be noted that the Cabinet meeting on March 1 had recommended Pandey as the resident ambassador for China and non-resident ambassador for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Mongolia, and sent the recommendation to the Committee for the hearing.
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Pandey, a resident of Likhu rural municipality-1 in Nuwakot, is the former Foreign Minister.
In accordance with the provision in Article 292 of the constitution, parliamentary hearings shall be conducted for the appointment of ambassadors as per the Federal Law.
Before proceeding with the parliamentary hearing, the Committee had studied about academic qualifications and experiences of the proposed ambassador.
Pandey who had become the Member of Parliament in 2056 BS has the experiences of serving as the chief whip of the then CPN (UML) parliamentary party.
He was an associate professor in Tribhuvan University from 1975-94 AD. Presently, he is the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) politburo, member. If the parliamentary hearing goes in his favor, he will replace Leelamani Poudyal who was recalled by the government recently.
As the government said, Poudyal was called back as per its policy of sending a person with political experience to China. Before the appointment of former Chief Secretary Poudyal as the Ambassador to China, Pandey's name had been proposed for the post, but the parliamentary hearing had been stopped with the government change.
