The Parliament’s State Affairs Committee (SAC) has decided to finalise the issue of whether to remove the terminology ‘His Majesty’ or replace it with the ‘Head of the State’ in a Bill on Approving Public Document on Wednesday.

Sunday’s meeting of the SAC made the decision to this effect.

Previous meetings of the committee failed to reach any consensus following dispute among SAC members on whether to remove the phrase “His Majesty” or to replace it with the ‘Head of State’ in the bill.

The Bill in Clause (2) has given the right to approve public documents to ‘His Majesty’.

On Friday’s meeting Nepali Congress and Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) leaders, including Finance Minister Dr Ram Saran Mahat, proposed going with the ‘Head of the State,’ but leftist lawmakers strongly opposed it, demanding definition of the term, if it was to be used to replace the term His Majesty. However, owing to the differences among the MPs, the meeting was adjourned till today.

Chairman of the committee, Hridaya Ram Thani, discussed the issue with the chief whips of major political parties prior to the meeting, but the discussion failed to finalise the issue.