The meeting of the National Assembly scheduled for Monday has been postponed to Tuesday.

The upper House secretariat said the meeting called for today could not be held due to special reasons and it has been postponed to tomorrow at 11:01am.

Both the Houses of the federal parliament remain obstructed since Wednesday following the UML’s demand that Dahal resign over his controversial public remark that a transport entrepreneur had lobbied with India to appoint Dahal as prime minister.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party also joined the obstruction, demanding that the prime minister clarify the matter.

On July 2, Dahal, while addressing a function to launch the book ‘Roads to the Valley: The Legacy of Sardar Pritam Singh in Nepal’, had said, “He [Singh] had once made efforts to make me the prime minister. He reached Delhi several times and held multiple rounds of talks with politicians in Kathmandu to make me the prime minister.”

Earlier on Sunday, leaders of major parties–the ruling Maoist Centre and Nepali Congress, and main opposition UML–had agreed on ending House obstruction.

However, the parliament secretariat, under the directive from Speaker Devraj Ghimire, postponed the lower house meeting until Monday.