Parliament session ended only after understanding the report of co-operative fraud

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had made up his mind to end the parliament session at least two weeks before going to New York on October 5 to participate in the United Nations General Assembly. However, some leaders of the Congress and UML suggested that some bills from the National Assembly and Committees are about to go to the House of Representatives and the parliamentary special committee is proceeding with the writing of the report.

UML's chief whip Mahesh Bertaula said that the session of Parliament will end only after understanding the report of the committee. The House does not end without understanding the report of the committee. The House itself has formed a committee. After submitting the report to the Parliament through the speaker, the work and process of the committee ends, he said.

Likewise, the Tuesday meeting of the Parliament has decided to extend the deadline of 15 days to the committee as the report writing will run out of time. Surya Thapa, Chairman of the Committee, proposed to extend the deadline saying that the time was insufficient for further confirmation of the information and facts received by the Committee. The term of the committee has been extended from August 23 to October 6. The committee is preparing to prepare a report before Prime Minister Oli leaves for New York.

Parliamentary committee member and Congress leader Ishwari Neupane said that the committee is working with the goal of preparing the report before the additional deadline. There is no such tradition,' she said. Without

business, the government was faced with a moral crisis whether to hold the parliament session or not, just waiting for the report of the committee. UML chief whip Bertaula said that the bill related to Nepal University has come to the House of Representatives from the National Assembly, and the bill related to public broadcasting and legislation is about to come, so the parliament will not be without business. In the meantime, we are trying to work to pass some bills.

On the other hand, the deadline of the special committee has been extended by 15 days. The report should also be understood by the Parliament, so the business will reach the House by the first week of October,' he said.

Speaker Devraj Ghimire has announced the agenda of the Parliament on August 24th, 25th and 26th from the meeting of the Working Arrangement Consultative Committee held on Tuesday. Shyam Ghimire, chief whip of the Congress, said that after August 26, the Parliament will be decided based on whether or not there will be business.

Santosh Pariyar, the chief whip of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party, said that it is the responsibility of the government to give business to the parliament, call the session and end it. "Parliament is the opposition, so there is no question that the opposition should end the session. As long as the government wants to take the session, Parliament will go till then," said Pariyar. Discussions on some bills and question-and-answer sessions with ministers will be held in Parliament for three days. After that, there is no situation to say whether the government can give business or not.'

The government is waiting for the parliamentary special committee's report to proceed with the stalled investigation and action against Ravi Lamichhane, the then managing director of Gorkha Media Network and former deputy prime minister and home minister, who was involved in misappropriation and embezzlement of cooperative savings. When there was a case against other people involved in the cooperative case, like Lamichhane, the police refused to file a complaint against him.

The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the police is waiting for the study report of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on what kind of charges will be drawn against Lamichhane despite the work of taking complaints and proceeding with the investigation, which was stopped after the formation of a new government consisting of Congress and UML and the removal of Lamichhane as Home Minister.

'Since the formation of a new government and a case at the same time seems to be biased, it is important for us what kind of report the study report of the parliamentary inquiry committee gives and what kind of action it recommends,' said an official of the Ministry of Home Affairs. We are making preparations. Only after the report of the parliamentary committee comes, will the charges and prosecution be decided.

After giving a ten-hour statement to the parliamentary inquiry committee, the police have also taken a statement from Lamichhane. The committee has also interrogated 50 people who are accused of being directly and indirectly connected with the cooperative regulation and security personnel of various agencies as contact persons of the committee. Chairman of the

committee, Thapa, in an interview given to Kantipur TV's talk show program Fireside, which was aired on Monday, said that a report will be prepared recommending action along with the names of those found guilty based on facts, evidence and studies. Neupane, a member of the

committee, also said that action will be recommended to those found guilty. He said that since the committee has not yet defined the power and the opposition, it will work with the same spirit in writing the report. "Those who are found guilty are recommended to be prosecuted," she said, "but it is not possible to say with certainty who is guilty and who is not."