Kathmandu, June 20: A question-answer session scheduled for today’s meeting of the House of Representatives has been affected due to protest by lawmakers of the Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was scheduled to respond to questions raised by lawmakers in the Q&A session of today’s HoR meeting. Lawmakers of both parties protested by standing up from their respective seats soon after Speaker Devraj Ghimire announced the commencement of the meeting.
Speaker Ghimire urged the lawmakers of RSP and RPP to create appropriate environment to proceed ahead with the House business as it was necessary to conclude discussions on the Appropriation Bill and forward other programmes including the question and answer session.
The Speaker informed that the question and answer session was removed from the agenda after the lawmakers of both parties denied to take their seats rejecting Speaker Ghimire’s request.
The lawmakers of both parties exit from HoR meeting. However, discussion on Appropriation Bill was underway.
An agenda was determined to answer to the questions of lawmakers by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli as per the House of Representatives Regulation, 2079 BS.
RSP complains of being deprived of putting their demands to PM
Meanwhile, lawmakers of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) have said that they had to boycott the meeting of the House of Representatives because their party’s issues could not be put across to the Prime Minister.
RSP acting spokesperson Manish Jha said they had to boycott the meeting as they were not allowed to express their views and could not inform the Prime Minister about their demand in the House meeting today.
RSP has been protesting in Parliament over the ‘visit visa’ scam, calling for the formation of a parliamentary probe commission to investigate into the scandal and for the resignation of the Home Minister, alleging of his involvement.
“We wanted to tell the Prime Minister our concerns, but he left the meeting without listening to us. After that, we also left,” the RSP acting spokesperson said.
In today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, all MPs of the RSP attended wearing black clothes and blue ribbons in protest. The blue ribbon is recognized globally as a symbol of opposition to human trafficking. #nepal #rsp #kpoli
