Kathmandu, Oct 3: Most of the lawmakers speaking in the meeting of the House of Representatives on Tuesday showed concern over exorbitant price hike of daily essentials and ethnic and communal clashes erupting in different places.
The lawmakers demanded strong enforcement of law and order to address the eruptions of communal and ethnic clashes.
Similarly, they raised the issues as problems facing the farmers, and sufferers of natural disasters as landslide and floods.
Thakur Prasad Gaire suggested government that it focused infrastructure development.
Artificial shortage of goods and price hike on the run-up to festival is worrying, he viewed.
Janardan Sharma said time has come to effectively enforce citizen’s rights provisioned in the constitution.
Peace and order should be maintained in this multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural country as per spirit of constitution, he viewed, urging government to create such atmosphere that the incidents occurred in eastern Tarai and Nepalgunj would not repeat.
Hari Dhakal worried why none was worried over declining economy. Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan viewed country needs to improve good governance.
Pradip Yadav said why some businesspersons were not paying electricity tariff despite repeated prodding by Nepal Electricity Authority.
Abdul Khan demanded government that it removed double taxation on NRNs when they invest in Nepal. Ram Prakash Chaudhary shared that farmers in some eastern Tarai districts were facing hard times for scant rainfall, so their problems should be addressed.
Similarly, Chitra Bahadur KC questioned why those failed in exam were recommended for district judges. He further argued it was proved that Nepal could not afford federalism.
According to Prabhu Saha, madarasa run in the country should be recognized as community school. Dr Amaresh Kumar Singh drew government’s attention towards rising cases of attacks on doctors.
