Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has tabled a “historic” proposal before the House of Representatives on Thursday depriving His Majesty the King of all the privileges enjoyed by him and declare the reinstated House as “supreme.”

According to the proposal, the provision of Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Nepalese Army being held by HM the King has been scrapped. The provision has deprived the King of his control over 90,000 soldiers of the country.

The next is dissolution of the Raj Parishad Standing Committee. The job of the royal advisory body, which became controversial following the February 1 royal takeover, will now be taken care of by the House of Representatives itself.

The declaration read by the speaker Subash Nemwang due to ill health of Prime Minister Koirala has said that the parliament will form necessary procedure to go for the election of the constituent assembly. The proclamation also said that the full executive power will lie to the parliament.

The declaration has also deprived the King from his discretionary powers that were stipulated in the constitution of the kingdom of Nepal, 1990. Now onwards, the monarch will not have any authority to enact the law concerning royal succession, which will be done by the parliament.

The declaration scrapped the provision that His Majesty the King’s acts could not be challenged before the parliament and the Court.

Another major change made by the proclamation is changing the name of the Royal Nepalese Army into Nepali Army, and replacing “His Majesty’s Government” with the “ Government of Nepal”.

The monarch will no longer convene a session of the parliament as stipulated in the constitution. According to new proposal, the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall convene the session on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. A special session of the House can be called on the request of 25 percent of the lawmakers.

The cabinet will decide about the appointment of the army chief, mobilisation of the army will be done as per the decision of the council of ministers. However, that will have to be approved by the stipulated parliamentary committee.

The proclamation has also made the income and assets of the King taxable. The proclamation also said that the parliament will fix the expenditure of the Royal Palace.

The House proclamation is so powerful that it has declared all the provisions of the Constitution and laws that contradict this proclamation “ as nullified”.

The proclamation further said that it is not necessary to be the member of House of Representatives to be the minister.

The proclamation has declared Nepal as a secular state and added that the government will make provision for resolving the citizenship problem.

The visitors’ gallery of the parliament was full. Chiefs of the diplomatic missions, heads of United Missions, Chief of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal Ian Martin and other chiefs of the various organizations were present at the parliament to listen the historic proclamation of the parliament.