The Legislature-Parliament meeting was cancelled for seven straight time on Wednesday over war-ear land dealings.
The opposition parties – Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML – have said that they would not let the House session resume until the government scrapes the decision to legalise the land transactions made by the parallel government run by then rebel Maoists during the decade-long insurgency.
Before today, the opposition parties had already obstructed the House session six times.
Immediately after the start of the session, NC lawmaker Gopal Man Shrestha accused the government of tormenting the people by increasing the price of the petroleum products. Claiming that Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai himself was the leader of the Maoist parallel government, Shrestha said that Bhattarai unlawfully legalised his bad deeds abusing his power as the premier.
Likewise, UML lawmaker Shankar Pokharel said that even an anarchical rule would not be as cruel as the current government, which tried to deny the people’s Right to Information by hiding important government information. "Maoist leaders did not follow the seven-point deal signed between the political parties, which eventually led to the delay in peace process and constitution drafting process," said Pokharel.
Later, the lawmakers of the opposition parties left their seats which led Speaker Subash Nembang to cancel the session.
The next meeting of Legislature-Parliament has been called for Feb 5 at 1 pm
As Published on ekantipur
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