Koshi Provincial Assembly

The **Koshi Provincial Assembly** also known as the **Koshi Pradesh Sabha**, (Nepali: कोशी प्रदेश सभा) is the unicameral legislature of Koshi Province, one of the seven provinces in Nepal. The assembly is seated at the provincial capital at Biratnagar in Morang District at the District Coordination Committee Office. The assembly has 93 members of whom 56 are elected through first-past-the-post voting and 37 are elected through proportional representation. The term of the assembly is 5 years unless dissolved earlier.

## History

The Provincial Assembly of Province No. 1 (now Koshi Province) is formed under Article 175 of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 which guarantees a provincial legislative for each province in the country. The first provincial elections were conducted for all seven provinces in Nepal and the elections in Province No. 1 was conducted for 93 seats to the assembly. The election resulted in a victory for the CPN (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and CPN (Maoist Centre) alliance which later went on to form a coalition government under Sher Dhan Rai from CPN (UML). The first meeting of the provincial assembly was held on 5 February 2018. Pradeep Kumar Bhandari from CPN (UML) was elected as the first speaker of the provincial assembly, and Saraswoti Pokharel from Maoist Centre as the first deputy speaker of the provincial assembly.

## List of assemblies

|Election Year|Assembly|Start of term|End of term|Speaker|Chief Minister|colspan="2"|Party||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|2017|rowspan="3"|1st Assembly|rowspan="3"|5 February 2018|rowspan="3"|2022|rowspan="3"|Pradeep Kumar Bhandari|Sher Dhan Rai (<small>_Cabinet_</small>)|rowspan="2" bgcolor=""||rowspan="2"|CPN (UML)|
|Bhim Acharya (<small>_Cabinet_</small>)|||||||||||||||
|Rajendra Kumar Rai (<small>_Cabinet_</small>)|bgcolor=""||CPN (Unified Socialist)||||||||||||
|2022|2nd Assembly|1 January 2023|_Incumbent_|Baburam Gautam|Hikmat Kumar Karki (<small>_Cabinet_</small>)|bgcolor=""||CPN (UML)|||||||

## Committees

Article 195 of the Constitution of Nepal provides provincial assemblies the power to form special committees in order to manage working procedures.
|S.No.|Committee|
| --- | --- |
|1|Justice, Administration and Legislation|
|2|Good Governance and Planning|
|3|Finance|
|4|Public Accounts|
|5|Social Development|
|6|Industry, Tourism and Environment|
|7|Natural Resources and Infrastructure Development|

## Current composition

|colspan="2"|Party|Parliamentary party leader|Seats||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|bgcolor=""||CPN (UML)|Hikmat Kumar Karki|40|
|bgcolor=""||Nepali Congress|Uddhav Thapa|29|
|bgcolor=""||CPN (Maoist Centre)|Indra Bahadur Angbo|13|
|bgcolor="#FFD700"||Rastriya Prajatantra Party|Bhakti Prasad Sitaula|6|
|bgcolor=""||CPN (Unified Socialist)|Rajendra Kumar Rai|4|
|bgcolor="FFC0CB"||People's Socialist Party|Nirmala Limbu|1|

## Related pages

- Koshi Province

## Infobox (legislature)

- **native name**: कोशी प्रदेश सभा
- **native name lang**: ne
- **legislature**: 2nd Koshi Provincial Assembly
- **house type**: Unicameral legislature
- **jurisdiction**: Koshi Province (Nepal)
- **foundation**: 2018
- **leader1 type**: Speaker of the Koshi Provincial Assembly, Speaker
- **leader1**: Ambar Bahadur Bista
- **party1**: Rastriya Prajatantra Party, RPP
- **election1**: 9 January 2024
- **leader2 type**: Deputy Speaker of the Koshi Provincial Assembly, Deputy Speaker
- **leader2**: Sirjana Danuwar
- **party2**: CPN (UML)
- **election2**: 14 January 2023
- **leader3 type**: Chief Minister of Koshi Province, Leader of the House
- **leader3**: Hikmat Kumar Karki
- **party3**: CPN (UML)
- **election3**: 9 January 2023
- **leader4 type**: Leader of the Opposition in the Koshi Provincial Assembly, Leader of the Opposition
- **leader4**: Indra Bahadur Angbo
- **party4**: CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (MC)
- **election4**: 9 January 2023
- **structure1**: Nepal Province1 ProvincialAssembly 2022.svg
- **structure1 res**: 250px
- **political groups1**: **Government (70)**
* CPN (UML): 40
* Nepali Congress, Congress: 29
**Opposition (23)**
* CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (MC): 13
* Rastriya Prajatantra Party, RPP: 6
* CPN (Unified Socialist), CPN (US): 4
- **term length**: 5 years
- **voting system1**: Parallel voting:
* 56 seats – First-past-the-post, FPtP
* 37 seats – party-list proportional representation, PR
- **first election1**: 2017 Koshi Provincial Assembly election, 2017
- **first election2**: 2nd Koshi Provincial Assembly election, 2022
- **last election1**: 2022 Koshi Provincial Assembly election, 20 November 2022
- **next election1**: Next Koshi Provincial Assembly election, 2027
- **meeting place**: District Coordination Committee Office, Biratnagar, Morang District
- **constitution**: Constitution of Nepal