Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is addressing the nation later on Friday.

According to his private secretariat, the prime minister will address the nation at 3pm.

This is the first time that Prime Minister Deuba is going to address the nation after being elected as prime minister on July 13 last year.

In his address, according to his private secretariat, Deuba will focus on the achievements made by his government in the last six months, the government’s ongoing efforts to control the coronavirus and other contemporary issues.

The address also comes at a time when the political spectrum is stirred by a proposal to hold federal elections in April-May, the time when the country should be holding local polls.

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chair of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), a key coalition partner in the Deuba government, last week proposed general elections in April-May by pushing the local poll dates.

Some sections of the political parties and constitutional experts have said that delaying local polls, which would mean creating a vacuum at the local level, would be unconstitutional.

The high-level political coordination committee of the ruling alliance is also set to hold a meeting later on Friday to discuss the elections among other issues.

The committee meeting called for Thursday was postponed. On Thursday, Deuba, Dahal and Madhav Nepal, chair of the CPN (Unified Socialist), however, had held a meeting at Baluwatar.