{"id":2174,"date":"2020-01-27T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/27\/speaker-elect-sapkota-sworn-in\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:17:00","slug":"speaker-elect-sapkota-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/01\/27\/speaker-elect-sapkota-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker-elect Sapkota sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath of office and secrecy to newly-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota.<\/p>\n<p>Sapkota, who was elected to the post Sunday, took oath of office before the Head-of-the-State amidst a ceremony at the President&#8217;s Office, Shital Niwas today on the witness of Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana and National Assembly Chair Ganesh Prasad Timilsina.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Ishwor Pokhrel, former Prime Minister and Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal &#8216;Prachanda&#8217;, ministers, lawmakers, and officials from the constitutional bodies were also present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The HoR elected him to the post unopposed. He was the sole candidate in the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered the oath of office and secrecy to newly-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Prasad Sapkota. Sapkota, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[332,330],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}