CPN-UML lawmaker Devendra Dahal has been appointed the party’s parliamentary party leader in the National Assembly.

Party Chairman KP Sharma Oli, as per the CPN-UML Federal Parliamentary Party Statute-2020, appointed Dahal as the parliamentary party leader.

Dahal was serving as the party’s chief-whip at the National Assembly prior to appointment to the post.

Khimlal Bhattarai was holding UML’s parliamentary party leader post prior to his resignation from the upper house of the federal parliament