Kathmandu: Speaker Devraj Ghimire has held discussions with the chief whips of the ruling and opposition parties on the conduct of the winter session of the parliament , which will begin on Magh 18.

On Sunday, he held discussions with the whips of both the ruling and opposition parties on how to bring in more business during the winter session and what kind of agenda can be put on the business and advisory committee.

Maoist Center Chief Whip Hitraj Pandey said that more MPs and ministers from the ruling party are absent than the opposition and suggested that more attention should be paid to the role of the ruling party to make the meeting effective.

Chief Whip Pandey said that it was wrong to bring an ordinance without withdrawing the bill that was in the parliamentary committee and drew the attention of the Speaker to the ordinance being brought by circumventing the parliament.

Chief whips of the opposition parties have suggested that the Parliament Secretariat should have also alerted the government about the ordinance and move forward by setting an agenda for the meeting of the Business and Consultative Committee.