"Our MPs cannot afford to buy a Maruti, let alone a Pajero," National Assembly MP Bidur Prasad Poudel had commented, "We should not try to ignore the hard truth. Even if we look at the state of the country, it is not time to take advantage of that facility."

UML MP Amrit Bohara had said, ‘I am not in a position to buy a car. You cannot just buy a white elephant, you should also be in a position to take care of it.’ Interim Minister Nilambar Acharya of 2047 argued, ‘Most of our MPs do not have assets worth even two to four lakh rupees. But what is the financial source of their buying cars worth two to three lakh rupees? In the name of buying cars, the seeds of corruption can be sown.’

In 2052 Magh, after the Sher Bahadur Deuba government decided to allow MPs to import luxury cars, Poudel, Bohara and Acharya criticized it in one voice. They had also announced that they would not take the car facility. They disagreed with the decision to provide the car facility.

Even the Panchayats used the vehicle facility. Why shouldn't we? The Deuba government made this decision after MPs raised their voices in Parliament. By then, 150 MPs of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly had already opened letters of credit (LC) after the government provided the facility to import vehicles free of customs duty.

Even though most MPs did not have the financial means to drive Pajero and Prado, they had opened LCs in their own names. Most MPs had ordered Mitsubishi Pajero and Land Cruiser and opened LCs. There were no roads in the hilly districts they represented. Vehicles did not go. But even such MPs had ordered vehicles.

When MPs started ordering vehicles, some said, 'This has given birth to a new Pajero class.' Till then, the only ones who had not taken the vehicle facility were Poudel of the Nepali Congress, Bohara of the UML and Narayanman Bijukchhe of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party. They had made the announcement and commented that MPs were allowed to commit corruption in the name of convenience. Bijukchhe had said, ‘MPs are no longer in a position to buy a car. They are not even allowed to drive the car they buy. The car that comes with that facility is for the poor and the businessmen. It brings distortion and also leads to misuse of foreign currency.’

Most of the ministers, ministers of state, assistant ministers and leaders who became ministers during the UML era and were at the highest levels had ordered the car. 80 people had opened LCs for Mitsubishi Pajero. The price of Mitsubishi Pajero was 3.8 million, which many MPs had opened LCs to withdraw. Including the customs, sales tax, commission exemptions given by the government and the special discount given by the company for MPs, the price of a car seemed to be 1.3 million.

The National Bank had estimated that about 10 million US dollars would be spent on the facilities given to MPs and distinguished employees. Can a purchased vehicle be sold or not? The question of when it can be sold was raised by the MPs. The answer was given by the then Secretary of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Khagendra Basnet. He had said, ‘If honorable people use a vehicle of convenience for other purposes, society will not accept it.’ At that time, there were 205 MPs in the House of Representatives and 60 in the National Assembly.’

UML, on the other hand, had decided that its MPs who purchased vehicles would have to pay an additional amount to the party. It had been decided that the MPs who purchased vehicles would have to pay 100,000 to the center and 25 to 30,000 to the district for any vehicle they bought. There was a lot of criticism about the sources used by MPs to purchase vehicles. Acharya, who was also a former law minister, had said, ‘How are MPs buying Pajeros?’ Why don't the exponents of democracy and a transparent system show their sources?'

Masal-backed independent MP Pari Thapa sarcastically commented, 'When there has already been distortion in principles, policies and politics, how can a vehicle that has been imported in a constitutional manner bring distortion?' MPs who did not have the financial means to drive a vehicle used to get the documents in their own names but gave the vehicle to the dealer. There was talk that the dealer had agreed to give the 'margin' amount of the discount given on imports for using the vehicle to the MP.

At that time, the Deuba government was widely criticized for introducing a 'parojo culture' to maintain the coalition government. In 2044, it was decided to provide customs exemption to import vehicles for MPs. After the multi-party system, the Deuba government, supported by the RPP, which has a majority of panchayats, was under pressure to provide vehicle facilities. Even after 16 out of 19 RPP MPs were made ministers, the Deuba government was unstable.