Biratnagar, Aug 21: Deputy Speaker of the Koshi Province Assembly Sirjana Danuwar has assigned the duty of running the PA meeting to Israial Mansuri in her absence. She entrusted him with the responsibility through the Koshi Province Secretariat. In a notice, she said she would not be able to chair the PA meeting today and the immediate next meeting. Four PA members were assigned with the duty to run the PA meeting in the absence of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. Of them, senior most PA member Malati Kumari Limbu and the next senior most Ambar Bahadur Bista notified that she would be absent on the August 18 meeting. So, the duty of operating the meeting has gone to Mansuri, it has been said. Meanwhile, CPN (UML)’s Taradevi Dhakal, Khadga Bahadur Basnet, Gyanendra Subedi, Rohit Bahadur Karki, and Ram Prasad Mahato and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)’s Gopal Bahadur Bishwakarma have also informed the Province Assembly Secretariat that they will be on leave today and would not be present in the Assembly meeting. Similarly, in the meeting of the Assembly Business Advisory Committee this morning, the parties agreed to hold the Assembly’s meeting for 12:15 pm. The Nepali Congress, the CPN (UML), the CPN (Maoist Centre) and the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal were present in the Committee meeting that convened at 8 am today.