Kathmandu, May 12: The government has informed the Speaker, Devraj Ghimire, and major political parties’ chief whips in parliament about the upcoming fiscal year’s policy and programme.
At a meeting convened on Sunday by Speaker Ghimire and attended by chief whips of major political parties, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Padam Giri shared the issues of upcoming fiscal year’s policy and programme.
After the meeting, Minister Giri said that he informed the Speaker and chief whips of the major political parties about the government’s policy and programme to be unveiled in parliament on May 14 and added that the Nepali Congress should cooperate with the government in this issue.
According to Minister Giri, Speaker Ghimire urged the main opposition and other political parties to move ahead on the basis of consensus on advancing the presentation of the government’s policy and programme.
Minister Giri argued that obstructing the House business from the main opposition party seems inappropriate and asked the NC to present itself in a more responsible manner.
Likewise, chief whip of NC Ramesh Lekhak stated that he reiterated the issue of parliamentary probe committee to investigate the accusations on cooperative scams.
“The government is not ensuring justice to the opponent by creating situation for the obstruction of parliamentary business,” Lekhak added.
He argued that parliament was the right platform to raise the issue of alleged misappropriations of cooperatives’ funds.
