Congress in Parliament and the victims on the streets shouting cooperative fraud case

In Thursday's meeting of the House of Representatives, Congress asked Speaker Devraj Ghimire for emergency time, how will the Home Minister, who is accused of being involved in cooperative fraud, give justice to the victims? has asked that .

Joint General Minister and Member of Parliament Badri Pandey on behalf of the Congress raised political and moral questions about Lamichhane during the emergency of the House of Representatives. Pandey said, "Since the Home Minister, the commander of the agency that is supposed to be in charge of the investigation, is in the scope of the investigation, on the one hand, a serious moral question has arisen, and on the other hand, it has raised the suspicion that the investigation itself will be affected," Pandey said. How will the Home Minister, who is surrounded by heavy charges of non-payment of loans, bring other criminals of the same nature to legal action?'

His question was whether those who cheated billions of cooperatives under the guise of the Home Minister, who is accused of a few crores of co-operative fraud, will not be spared . He said to Lamichhane, 'Somewhere, by making your position a defense cover and putting you in the role of a sikhandi, who has only been accused of one/two crores, you are unknowingly becoming a weapon of the big fish who cheat tens of billions?' Pandey said that Khamba Sahakari was beaten up because of the thugs. Pandey said that the Congress is not asking personal questions about Lamichhane and has not felt the pain of being out of power. "It's not personal, it's about a deep political and moral issue, it's about content," he said.

Congress MP Shanti Wik drew the government's attention to the question raised by the savers of cooperatives in the constituency of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Lamichhane. She said, "The savers of Sahara Multi-Purpose Cooperative of Chitwan Area No. 2 have informed me over the phone that they will be affected by the investigation and they will be treated unfairly if they become ministers of the Ministry of self-interested interests accused of fraud of 85 crores . I would like to draw the attention of the government through the speaker to widen the investigation path for the person under investigation.

Congress MP Ishwari Neupane recalled that when the UML and RSVP were in the opposition, they had blocked the functioning of the House citing the controversial ministers. She said, "Are the people under investigation included in this cabinet?" The leader of the Prime Minister's party has said that the leader of the Prime Minister's party has said that in order to get a majority in the coalition, even people with scars have to be included. What is the reality of that? What kind of justice, what kind of system are you developing by giving people who are related to the ministry with conflicting interests?'

Congress MP Ramkrishna Yadav at the beginning of the Parliament meeting held the opinion that Pandey and the party MPs in Wednesday's meeting should support the issues raised about cooperatives and fulfill the demand. The Congress demanded that the Prime Minister should respond to questions raised about Lamichhane. Badri Pandey also demanded that the Prime Minister should be ruled by the Speaker to answer the matter.

Pandey claimed that the Congress followed the example set by the opposition in the House and the principle established by the Prime Minister by not raising questions about the Prime Minister and Lamichhane personally. While in the opposition, UML and Raswapa demanded the removal of the controversial then 'controversial' ministers . Repeating the same thing, the Congress has asked the Prime Minister for an answer on what to do with the ministers who have raised questions.

'Congress cannot be witness to Chesta's constant deletion of scenes and practices in the House last month . The Prime Minister, who was supposed to come to the House on the 21st to answer the serious questions raised by the MPs of the then opposition party from February 6 to 18, appeared in a new avatar on the 24th,' he said. We carefully looked at the answer. We gave the benefit of the doubt whether this principle established by the Prime Minister would strengthen parliamentary values. But after he handed over the portfolio of the deputy prime minister to an honorable member who is under investigation, the illusion of hope towards him has been dashed.' were doing . Which he informed the House . The demonstration of the victims is starting on the street. They are saying that they are forced to pay any price if they do not get their principal and interest back," said Pandey.

While the people's representatives elected from the Congress raised the issue of cooperative victims in the parliament and demanded answers from Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Home Minister Lamichhane, the victims were demanding their money back on the streets.

• The police arrested the cooperative victims who were protesting to put pressure on the government to return their money. The victims, who have been protesting at the Co-operative Department near the Parliament House since about a month ago, gathered on the Pradasharni Marg on Thursday by marching from various places in Kathmandu Valley under pressure. Gopal Prasad Tripathi, a participant in the protest, said that the police had arrested them. While they were peacefully sitting on the streets, the police charged them with water cannons and batons . "Some friends have been caught by the police," Tripathi said, "Many have been dispersed by handcuffs." Victims have come out on the streets with the slogan 'Let's fight for immediate return of deposit interest and certainty'. According to Purushottam Karki, the spokesperson of the cooperative savers protection national campaign (Maha Sangh), Kushlav KC, the president of the cooperative savers protection national campaign (Maha Sangh), and his friends, including the vice president, were arrested by the police and taken to the Teku police office. He claims that around 15 to 20 thousand victims from Bihi came to the streets.

More than 500 co-operatives across the country who are in trouble have not been able to return billions of rupees to millions of savers. They complain that they had to come back to the protest after not getting the money back as per the agreement of the previous talks. As per the agreement reached between the government and cooperative victims seven months ago, the cooperative victims are now protesting again after not getting their savings back. Last July 18, after the talks between the government and the victims, the protest of cooperative victims in Maitighar in Kathmandu was suspended. At that time, the negotiations were concluded with a seven-point agreement.

The report of the 'Cooperative Sector Reform Suggestion Task Force-080', which was formed under the coordination of National Planning Commission member Jayakant Raut, suggested that the money of the savers should be returned as per demand by 080 Chait. Based on this, the government promised to return all the savings of the savers by 080 Chait in the talks with the cooperative victims last July. "Even for seven months after the talks, the government did not do anything as promised," said Karki, the spokesperson of the National Association for the Protection of Savings Banks (Maha Sangh). Our movement will not stop now.

Demonstration of cooperative victims in Kathmandu [photos]