Congress strategy to put the cooperative issue at the door of power

Recently, there were differences of opinion within the Congress on whether to interrupt the House of Representatives meeting or not due to the demands of the parliamentary committee. With the consent of top leader Shekhar Koirala, General Minister Gagan Thapa has been aggressive in Parliament, but Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba has adopted a soft policy.

In view of the possible changes in the power equation in the coming days, Congress president Deuba has taken a policy of not provoking Lamichhane.

'In current power politics, the 21 seats of the National Independent Party are decisive, so it is the wish of the Speaker not to make the future cooperation difficult by increasing the distance with the Chairman of that party, as per his instructions, the Congress mechanisms have been mobilized,' the Congress official said, Deuba is optimistic that he can.'

Moreover, the leaders including General Minister Thapa were suspicious that the Chairman of the State Arrangement Committee, Ramhari Khatiwada, called the Home Minister and the Chief of Police to a meeting at the same time on the instructions of Chairman Deuba. Thapa, who is also a member of the committee, did not attend the meeting even though he was in the capital.

While the demand for the formation of a parliamentary inquiry committee is being raised, Speaker Deuba's dialogue with Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has suddenly increased. On the other hand, the leaders close to Deuba are communicating with the leaders of RSVP. There is an opinion within the Congress that this issue should not be abandoned. In this, Shekhar Koirala and Gagan Thapa are in the same place," said a leader from the establishment party, "but under the instructions of the President, there is also a dialogue between the Congress and the RSVP, as a result, the Congress has become flexible. Congress speaks in Parliament, but does not obstruct. That is the way forward.'

Chief Minister Gagan Thapa is not satisfied with the message that the Congress is flexible now. Stating that the demand of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee is natural, justified and necessary, he said that the Congress is not left or right by the decision made by the Working Committee of the Parliamentary Party.

Our demand is that the parliamentary committee should investigate. We don't want to do anything that will trouble the coalition or prevent the home minister from working," Thapa said. "That's why we want the process of bills coming in the parliament not to stop. We are presented with a sense of responsibility. If there is any other message than that, it is wrong.'

General Minister Thapa claims that there is no retreat before or after the Congress. "It's not a matter of before or after now. We are where we are. At first, we asked them to do the work of helping the investigation by avoiding the responsibility, since the government was not ready for it, there was no question of coercion. Then we asked to form a parliamentary inquiry. Which happened yesterday during the time of Janardan Sharma, Vishnu Paudel and Ramsharan Mahat. It is a parliamentary practice and process," he added, "we do not want to draw unnecessary political controversy over it. We do not want to block the business of Parliament. The government has also done its job. The Home Minister has not been stopped from doing other work. Congress is clear about this, we will not give up on the demands of the parliamentary committee.'

Congress leader Prakasharan Mahat said that he became flexible for a few days because the message was that the bill was stopped when Parliament was closed. It's not backward. There is still a demand that a parliamentary inquiry committee should be formed," he said. The Congress has not stopped warning of disrupting the Parliament meeting due to the involvement of Home Minister Lamichhane in the cooperative fraud case. In the Parliament meeting on Sunday, Congress MP Sanjay Gautam said that Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal's answer in Parliament and Police Chief Basanta Bahadur Kunwar's speech in the State Order and Good Governance Committee meeting raised suspicions that the truth would be investigated by the state agencies. "Is it enough for the Prime Minister to show his commitment that he will investigate the big fish and only look for the small fish after grabbing the big fish?," he asked. He said that the Prime Minister and the Chief of Police were trying to give a 'clean chit' to Home Minister Lamichhane in the co-operative fraud.

Congress is trying to stop Home Minister Lamichhane from going to the rostrum of the Parliament by taking the undemocratic way of rejecting the presence of the RSVP, says Santosh Pariyar, chief whip of the RSVP. He said that the purpose of the demand for the formation of a parliamentary inquiry committee was only to force Lamichhane to resign as the Home Minister. The Home Minister is ready to answer the allegations leveled against him at the rostrum of Parliament. It is an undemocratic act of the Congress to stop answering, the act of banning the RSVP is never acceptable," said Pariyar.

Congress MP Shanti Wik said that rumors are being spread that the Prime Minister has proposed to Lamichhane to cover up the issue of misappropriation of cooperative savings. The big fish did not stop swallowing the money saved by working as a wage laborer in the cooperative. Now the discussion is going on in the market, the Congress has offered the Prime Minister. how did By passing the Central Committee? Officials, the parliamentary party made an official decision?' she said in the parliament. Congress MP Santosh Chalise said that Prime Minister Dahal acquitted Lamichhane on the co-operation charge by becoming a 'judge' to maintain power.

Congress blocked the Parliament by encircling the well when Home Minister Lamichhane was about to submit the bill on political parties in the meeting of the House of Representatives on March 2. In the meeting of Chait 6, Prime Minister Dahal answered about the involvement of Home Minister Lamichhane in cooperative fraud. The Congress has been demanding a parliamentary inquiry committee saying that it was not satisfied with the Prime Minister's answer.