KATHMANDU: Speaker of House of Representatives (HoR) Agni Prasad Sapkota made a special appeal with parliamentarians to help run the House by ending the obstruction in the parliament.
In today’s meeting of the HoR, Speaker Sapkota drew the attention of the protesting parliamentarians towards the situation where the parliamentarians were not being able to discuss issues of the public concern and country due to obstruction of the House by the CPN (UML)–associated lawmakers.
Furthermore, the Speaker said that formulation of acts, bills and laws were also adversely affected due to the opposition party parliamentarians disrupting the House proceedings.
Sapkota said, “The members of the House have been drawing my attention repeatedly to ensure effective operation of the House. Concerns have been raised among the public to make parliament more effective.”
According to him, parliamentary business such as endorsing 42 bills that were under deliberation, sharing people’s problem in the parliament, holding government accountable to parliament and formulation of laws among others have been affected due to the obstruction of the House.
“It is the responsibility of all of us to help endorse the under-deliberation bills and run the state affairs,” he argued.
CPN (UML), the major opposition, has been obstructing the House since the beginning of the current session of the parliament saying that the Speaker did not publish notice about the 14 parliamentarians expelled by their party.
