The Speaker of the House of Representatives, formed in the 2048 BS elections, Damannath Dhungana, had repeatedly said, "The government belongs to the ruling party and the parliament belongs to the opposition." This statement was also said to have been established by Dhungana.

The mid-term elections held in 2051 gave the UML an opportunity to take over the reins of power. In the previous election, the Congress, which had a majority in the House of Representatives, had been pushed into the opposition by the mid-term elections. However, after the Congress became the main opposition, the norms established by former Speaker Dhungana began to be heard in the parliament.

While the UML had formed the government and even made the budget public, the role of the opposition parties, including the Congress, which had a majority in the parliament, was not satisfactory. Although the house was said to be the opposition's, political analysts had started saying that if there were players who knew the political game, the ruling party could also move the house along its roadmap.

Although there was some uproar during the eighth session, there was never any discomfort in the conduct of the meeting. Except for once when the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and the Congress boycotted the house by raising the issues of Tanakpur and Dasdhunga, the parliament was seen to be functioning smoothly.

After Girija Prasad Koirala became the Prime Minister in 2048, the issues raised by the then UML had heated up not only the streets but also the House. But in the eighth session, the main opposition Congress had failed to advance the issues raised by the UML when it was in the opposition at that time. The UML, which was in the minority in the House of Representatives, had been given a vote of confidence. It was like a kind of political compulsion.

The opposition parties including the Congress had not been able to play an effective role in the budget. The ruling party MPs had said that there was no room for criticizing the government for the liberal economic policies and programs proposed in the budget. When it was in the opposition, questions were raised about the role of the Congress in the parliament, saying that the opposition had not been able to have a clear view of the policies and programs brought by the government led by Manmohan Adhikari of the UML, who was known as an opponent of a liberal and open economy.

The situation arose that the report on the involvement of the previous government in the then Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation dispute had to be discussed in the Accounts Committee. That is why the Accounts Committee had become a matter of prestige for the ruling and opposition parties. But there was a comment that the Congress ignored it. The then Law Minister Subash Chandra Nembang had said that the government would not use the airline report politically. Nembang had informed that the airline report had been submitted in the seventh session during the previous government.

In the parliament, the ruling party had helped the opposition and its close MPs to be elected as the chairmen of the parliamentary committees. Independent MPs Sharad Singh Bhandari and Moti Prasad Pahadi, who were said to be close to the Congress, were respectively elected as the chairmen of the Natural Resources and Development Committee. Congress's Dhundiraj Shastri was made the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee unopposed. The ruling party had sent a message of respect by making Shastri, who stood in the ranks of the Koirala government's opponents, the chairman. In all this, the government was said to have made the opposition happy by supporting the ruling party. 

Analysts had started discussing the activities seen in Parliament, which led to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, who was about to leave for a visit to India, not even having the context to speak about Tanakpur.  When India asked him what was happening in Tanakpur, the ruling party MPs used to tell him that he was not in a position to say that it was under discussion in Parliament.  Law Minister Nembang, on the other hand, had responded that the opposition was not ready to form a joint parliamentary committee despite holding an all-party meeting for three consecutive days. 

Although at first glance it seemed that the country was being run on understanding, the national issue was overlooked, and the Kantipur Daily had published a news analysis titled ‘Government and House in the hands of the ruling party’ on 19 Magh 2051, raising questions about the role of the opposition in the eighth session of Parliament, adding the context of the end of the eighth session of Parliament after it had forgotten the national issue.