If the Chairman of the Accounts Committee is to be changed, then the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly should also be changed: Baskota

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UML MP Gokul Baskota, who is leading the government, has said that if the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee is to be changed, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly should also be changed.

The MPs of the main opposition party Maoist Center, Amanlal Modi and Lekhnath Dahal, said that the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee should be changed. Congress MP Arjunnar Singh KC also said that it is a parliamentary practice to give the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee to the opposition.

In Sunday's meeting of the Public Accounts Committee, UML MP Baskota said that if the Chairman is to be changed, the National Assembly Chairman and Deputy Chairman They also argued that it should be changed. UML's Rishikesh Pokharel is the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. Narayan Prasad Dahal, nominated by the President, is the Speaker of the National Assembly. He was the leader of the Maoist center .

The MPs of UML are protesting the demand to change the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee and give it to the opposition party. "If the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee is to be changed, let's also change the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives." "Let's agree on the change, and then we will talk," he said.

Baskota argued that not only the Public Accounts Committee but also the chairman of other committees should be changed . Maoist Center MP Vimala Subedi is the Chairman of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives, while the opposition RPP MP Deepak Bahadur Singh is the Chairman of the Development Committee. Under the leadership of the UML, the Congress, the largest party in the parliament, is also in the government.

UML parliamentarians have said that the chairman was on the side of the ruling party in the past and argued that the opposition should not object if he is still on the side of the ruling party.

In the previous House of Representatives, UML boycotted the meeting when Bharat Shah of Congress was the Chairman of the Accounts Committee. Baskota said that he boycotted the committee meeting in protest against the reinstatement of the Parliament Court.