Kathmandu, May 23: The meeting of the working group formed to finalize the mandate of the Parliamentary Probe Committee to carry out the cooperative investigation has remained inconclusive.
Chief Whip of CPN (UML) parliamentary party Mahesh Bartaula informed that in the meeting held at the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs at Singhdarbar today, the mandate of the Parliamentary Probe Committee was discussed.
He said that the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, did not have a conclusion due to the position that the name of the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane should be investigated. According to him, the meeting of the working group is scheduled to be held again on Friday morning. “The meeting was inconclusive”, he said. “From today’s meeting, we have come close to some of the committee’s work to be finalized at 8.30 am tomorrow.”
Joint General Secretary of Nepali Congress Jivan Pariyar said that they did not accept the intention to advance the scope of the investigation without naming names in the proposal put forward by the government in the meeting.
“There is no situation for the Congress to agree on the working group without without investigating the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Lamichhane,” he said. “This is what I have told the government in today’s meeting.”
The meeting of the House of Representatives is scheduled to be held at 11 am on Friday. It is said that before the meeting of the assembly, the working group will hold a meeting to reach an agreement.
The task force includes Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Padam Giri, Chief Whip of CPN UML Bartaula, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) leader Shishir Khanal, Congress leader Gyanendra Bahadur Karki and Pariyar.
