After four years, the name of Province 2 has been decided as Madhesh Pradesh and the permanent capital is Janakpur. The provincial assembly meeting has decided the name and the capital through voting. The meeting first voted on the proposal for naming the capital and then the Province.
Out of 104 MPs, 99 participated in the polls. There were 78 votes in favor of Janakpur being the capital. Speaker Saroj Yadav had declared the resolution passed by a two-thirds majority. A parliamentary committee headed by Speaker Yadav had put forward the proposal for the capital with Janakpurdham Sub-metropolis as the center. It includes the Dhalkewar and the highway in the north, the Kamala river in the east, the border of Nepal in the south, and the wider area of the Mithila Madhyami circuit in the west. It was jointly proposed by all the parties in the state assembly. MPs from Bara and Parsa, on the other hand, voted against Janakpur. They had proposed to make Birgunj the capital.
Similarly, the proposal to rename Province 2 as Madhesh was also passed by a two-thirds majority. Of the 99 MPs who voted, 80 voted in favor of the resolution. The Janata Samajwadi Party, the Loktantrik Samajwadi Party, and the Maoist Center had registered it as a joint proposal. Which was supported by UML and CPN (S) MPs.
Nineteen Congress lawmakers voted against the party decision. Congress had registered a proposal to name Mithila-Bhojpura. Some lawmakers from Bara and Parsa had separately proposed 'Madhya Madhes'.
Speaker Yadav said that the first proposal on capital and name was automatically rejected after more than two-thirds of the votes were cast. Article 295 (2) of the Constitution states that the naming of a province shall be by a two-thirds majority of the total number of members of the Provincial Assembly concerned.
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