The government has announced a public holiday for Thursday on the demise of Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairperson and CPN (UML) Vice Chair Subash Chandra Nembang.

The Ministry of Home Affairs informed about this through a notice. Nembang, the HoR member from Ilam-2,died of a heart attack on Tuesday at the age of 71.

The government has decided to lower the official flag to half-mast in the entire government offices and Nepali diplomatic missions abroad on Thursday.