Skip to main content

UML obstructs parliament vowing to foil amendment bill


The main opposition party CPN-UML obstructed parliament proceedings on Thursday to protest against the constitution amendment bill that proposed changes in provincial boundaries and other provisions.

The government registered a bill that proposes shifting some districts from Province 5 to Province 4 and making changes to the provisions relating to citizenship, language of official business and representation in the National Assembly. The government however is yet to table the bill in the House meeting for deliberations.

Speaker Onsari Gharti couldn't introduce any agenda items in the House meeting as no sooner she announced the commencement of the meeting than UML lawmakers stood up from their seats.

UML leader Bamdev Gautam addressing the parliament vowed to obstruct the House proceedings to stop the bill from getting endorsed.

"The government has flouted the constitution while bringing this amendment bill in parliament. This bill shouldn't have been brought here because this transitional parliament has no right to make changes to provincial boundaries," said Gautam. "The prime minister either doesn't understand the constitution or has deliberately flouted it."

Gautam claimed that the proposal to change the provincial boundaries was brought against the wish of the people from that province and to "please someone else".

"We decided to adopt federalism in a model under which people from the tarai, hills and the mountains stay together," he said. "But the bill has come as a plot to separate the three regions and create conflict between them."

He went on to say that the bill was also a part of a conspiracy to break the Tarai-Madhes region away from the country.

"This proposal has tried to establish Tarai in itself as a separate nation and Nepal as a multinational state," the UML vice-chairman claimed. "This is being done with a plan to lay the ground to break the Tarai away from Nepal."

While leaders from the ruling parties have been claiming that the bill was drafted as per the three-point agreement reached between the agitating Madhes-based parties, Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Center) just ahead of the formation of the present government.

Gautam said the country and the people aren't accountable to the three-point deal and can't agree to unacceptable provisions just because the parties signed the deal.

Then, the speaker called the next sitting for Friday without introducing any business in the meeting.

Three small parties -- CPN (ML), Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and Rastriya Janamorcha - have also stood against the bill.

MyRepublica
02-12-2016

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bhattarai stresses on rebuilding Nepal-India ties

- Kamal Dev Bhattarai Former Prime Minister and Coordinator of Naya Shakti Nepal Baburam Bhattarai has said that there is a lack of ‘proper understanding’ in India about Nepal. Speaking to Post before concluding his visit to India on Tuesday, leader Bhattarai said mainly young generation of India has some flawed understanding about Nepal and bilateral relations between the two countries. The former prime minister maintained that there is a need of dialogue, debate and discussions to rebuild the bilateral relations in the change political context Nepal and India. Bhattarai made such remark after extensive discussions with Indian intellectual and policy makers during his seven-day stay in New Delhi.  Bhattarai underlined the need for building a bilateral relation between two countries at the top political levels. Bhattarai was of the view that there has been a huge change in the political scenario of both countries and bilateral relation should be rebuilt accordingly. He ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Reduce Poverty: Much Neglected

Dilli Raj Khanal A progressive distributional policy together with the suitable institutional setups and arrangements at the grassroots for ensuring exclusively the access of poor to social and physical infrastructure as well as financial services is also a necessity . As a part of global event, poverty eradication day was celebrated in Nepal recently with claims that Nepal is one of the best performers in this area. If estimated poverty trends are looked into, there are no grounds to refute such an assertion. According to official figures, in 20 year’s period poverty has reduced by more than 20 per cent, from 41.8 per cent in 1995/96 to 21.2 per cent in 2015/16. Compared to the average GDP growth rate of 3.7 per cent in that period, the poverty reduction rate was about 3.2 per cent per annum. The breakdown by different updated poverty estimated periods give an interesting pattern. For instance, the annual poverty reduction rate was sharpest at 3.7 per cent annually during ...
Post a Comment
Read more

House panel has decided 3 % threshold provision

State Affairs Committee of the Parliament has decided to impose a threshold of three percent and at least one seat under the First-Past-the-Post electoral system to secure seats under the proportional representation system. The committee meeting on Wednesday took the decision to impose the threshold. Earlier, a sub committee formed by the committee decided to impose 3 percent threshold in the upcoming parliamentary election to become national political party. According to the subcommittee member Rameshwor Phuyal, the 27th meeting of the panel decided to provision three percent threshold after the rigorous discussion.  "Any political party must secure at least three percent seat under the Proportional Representation (PR) category and at least one seat under First-Past-the-Post category to become the national political party," said Phuyal.  He hailed the decision of the 11-member panel as historic. The sub-committee was failing to endorse the Bill Related to ...
Post a Comment
Read more