The issue of the Tanakpur agreement with India in November 2048 has been heated for a long time from the streets to the House. In particular, at the call of the left-wing party, the issue of Tanakpur was raised in the protests across the country, and even civilians died.

The gap between the ruling party Congress and the left-wing parties, including the main opposition UML, was widening . The controversy that started with the main opposition's stance that the Tanakpur agreement was the agreement and Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's insistence that there was an agreement reached the parliament.

After the Supreme Court declared the Tanakpur agreement to be a treaty, the controversy raged whether it should be passed by two-thirds or a simple majority. After that, the provisions in the treaty and the matter of getting it passed by the parliament became complicated again. 

The left-wing parties, including the main opposition UML, raised the additional issue that the provisions of the treaty were unequal. After the court declared the treaty, they demanded that it be passed only by a two-thirds majority of the parliament. But the then Minister of State for Water Resources Laxman Ghimire had already registered the treaty in the Parliament Secretariat after deciding to pass it by a simple majority at the meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party. After that, the left-wing parties became more agitated. Advocate Balkrishna Neupane, through Leelamani Pokharel, the leader of the former United Janam Morcha Parliamentary Party, filed a petition in the Parliament to stop the Tanakpur Treaty from being submitted.

As the distance between the ruling party Congress and the main opposition UML increased, an attempt was made to find a solution through the parliament on the initiative of the then Speaker Damannath Dhungana regarding the Tanakpur Treaty. In this regard, the all-party meeting held on 29th February 2049 decided to form a joint committee for exit. In particular, the evaluation committee had determined the jurisdiction to dispose of the Tanakpur Treaty by which method.

Speaker Dhungana said that the parliament should show its strength. The evaluation committee formed by the government under the coordination of Professor Lokraj Baral had already submitted its report. However, the ruling party agreed to form another committee. Leftist parties were unhappy that Baral's report suggested that Nepal would not be at a disadvantage from Tanakpur. It was not sure what the assessment committee will be like, who will sit and when it will be formed.