KATHMANDU, Sept 5: Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has been recommended as the candidate of the CPN (Maoist Center) for the upcoming general election from constituency no. 1 of Sindhupalchowk district.

KATHMANDU, July 11: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has drawn the attention of the government to give proper answers to the issues raised by the lawmakers in the zero hour and special hour. The lawmakers had repeatedly objected saying that the government was not interested in the issues raised during the zero hour.

KATHMANDU, July 2: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and Speaker of the Republic of Azerbaijan Sahiba Gafarova met today. The meeting took place on the sideline of a conference of the parliamentary network of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Azerbaijan.

KATHMANDU, June 28: A parliamentary delegation led by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agni Prasad Sapkota, is to attend the Non-Aligned Movement Parliamentary Network’s conference that is to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from June 30 - July 2, 2022.

KATHMANDU, May 20: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has said that a serious attention has been drawn to an incidence of sexual harassment against a beauty pageant participant.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, May 13: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has cast his vote in the local level election. He cast his vote at the local Setidevi Panchakanya Higher Secondary School polling center in Chautara Sangachokgadhi Municipality-5 on Friday morning.

KATHMANDU, May 2: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has said that youths can play an important role to make local level elections free, fair and peaceful.

KATHMANDU, April 10: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has urged the business community to focus on the promotion of entrepreneurship with the feeling of national unity. In his address to a program organized on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of Nepal Chamber of Commerce, the Speaker underlined the need for promoting business activities, keeping the nation and people first.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, April 7: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has expressed confidence that the problems seen in the parliament will be solved through dialogue.

KATHMANDU, March 29: Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has said that the people should elect representatives that are capable, honest and change-maker in the upcoming local level election.

KATHMANDU, March 9: A delegation led by Véronique Riotton, president of the France-Nepal Parliamentary Friendship Group of the French House of Representatives, today paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba at his official residence in Baluwatar and Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota at the latter's office in Singha Durbar.

KATHMANDU, Feb 20: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has said the US aid agreement reached between Nepal government and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of the US was tabled in parliament to prevent Nepali society from further polarizing. As the Speaker apprised the House, the decision was also based on the public voice on the issue.

KATHMANDU, Feb 16: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has called a Business Advisory Committee meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) at 11:30 AM, the Federal Parliament Secretariat said.

KATHMANDU, Feb 14: The main opposition party, CPN-UML, has decided to boycott an all-party meeting called by Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: The meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) has been rescheduled for January 30 at 1 PM.

KATHMANDU, Dec 21: Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota has accused the CPN-UML of trying to adversely affect the decision of cases that are pending at the court.

KATHMANDU, Dec 21: CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal has claimed his party supports Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agni Prasad Sapkota, in connection with sorting out the current stalemate in parliament.

KATHMANDU, Dec 14: CPN (UML) chairperson and parliamentary party leader KP Sharma Oli has warned Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota against threatening UML lawmakers.

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Speaker Agni Sapkota has put off the meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) for Thursday amids protests of the lawmakers belonging to the CPN-UML.

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: The hearing on the separate cases filed by CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and Speaker Agni Sapkota has been prolonged after the Supreme Court could not conclude the hearing on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 2: CPN-UML Chairperson KP Sharma Oli has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court on Wednesday against CPN (Unified Socialist) and Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota. He has accused Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota of helping members of the House of Representatives to open a new party without releasing them from the previous party.

KATHMANDU, August 13: The speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has directed to remove some ‘indecent’ and ‘non-parliamentary’ remarks made by the  CPN (Maoist Center) lawmaker Matrika Prasad Yadav in the HoR meeting held on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, June 11: Speaker of the dissolved House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota has called an all-party meeting on Friday. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 2 PM.

KATHMANDU, Feb 3: Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun and Speaker of the dissolved House of Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota boycotted swearing-in ceremony of the newly-appointed office bearers of constitutional bodies held at Sheetal Niwas, the President's Office, on Wednesday morning.

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SINDHUPALCHOWK, July 9: The speaker for the House of Representatives, Agni Prasad Sapkota  arrived in the flood-hit region on Thursday afternoon.

KATHMANDU, March 12: Units of the Nepal Police have done a U-turn while furnishing written replies to the Supreme Court (SC) on the murder accusation against Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota.

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has urged the Speaker of House of Representative Agni Prasad Sapkota to incorporate the concerns of stakeholders in the controversial Media Council and Information Technology Bills.

KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Within a month of his election to the post of Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota has started ‘blocking’ opposition voice in parliament. On Sunday, Speaker Sapkota barred a leader of the main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) from speaking.