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Mahendranagar. 12 September
CPN-UML vice-chair and former Speaker Subas Chandra Nembang passed away on Monday night at the age of 70.
According to UML Chief Whip Padam Giri, Nembang had suffered a heart attack at his Baluwatar-based residence. He died on his way to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Giri told the Post.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, UML Chair KP Sharma Oli, and House Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, among other leaders, have reached the Maharajgunj-based hospital to pay their final respects.
Nembang’s body will be kept at the UML party headquarters in Chyasal from 12 p.m. for final tributes, said UML Deputy General Secretary Bishnu Rimal.
Nembang served as Speaker of the resorted House of Representatives in 2007. He was elected the House Speaker the same year and served as Constituent Assembly Chairman/Speaker in 2008 and 2013. Nembang was re-elected Speaker in 2015.
