Kathmandu. President Bidya Devi Bhandari appoints Samim Miyan Ansari as the Chairman of the Muslim Commission (Muslim Aayog) of Nepal.
President Bhandari on Thursday appointed him and chiefs of four other different constitutional bodies.
The Constitution Council on January 20 had recommended former secretary Balananda Paudel as Chairman of the National Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission, former secretary Shanta Raj Subedi as that of National Inclusion Commission, Bijay Kumar Dutta of the Madhesi Commission, Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary of the Tharu Commission and Samim Miyan Ansari in the Muslim Commission.
The five heads of the Constitutional commissions as managed by the new Constitution of Nepal were sworn in by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana in presence of HE President Bhandari at the latter’s office Shital Niwas on Thursday.
Ansari was appointed even without parliamentary endorsement as per the regulation about the operation of the federal parliaments and committees that mentions there will be no obstruction in the recommended persons getting an appointment if no decision is taken by the parliamentary hearing committee within 45 days. The 45-day deadline for Ansari expired on March 9 with the committee failing to take any decision. The committee requires just a simple majority for endorsement and two-third majority for rejection.
