President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba held a discussion on contemporary issues at Shital Niwas on Thursday afternoon.Efforts the government has made to control COVID-19, the National Assembly election held yesterday, local level elections and other current issues featured during the meeting.

President Bhandari’s personal secretary, Bheshraj Adhikari, informed RSS that the meeting between the President and the PM ran for nearly an hour and it is a regular meeting.It is said PM Deuba informed President Bhandari that discussion was underway with political parties in relation to the local level election and government was committed to implementing the constitution. He also vowed that elections would be held as per constitutional provision.