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What will Congress do about its own vice-chairman Gurung, who is demanding a cooperative investigation?

भाद्र ३०, २०८१
What will Congress do about its own vice-chairman Gurung, who is demanding a cooperative investigation?
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What will Congress do with its own party vice-chairman Dhanraj Gurung, who has been demanding an investigation on Ravi Lamichhane, chairman of the National Independent Party and former deputy prime minister and home minister, in misappropriation of cooperative savings and fraud? Congress has not made a formal statement on this matter.

However, Congress General Minister Gagan Thapa has raised the demand for an investigation from the public platform a few days ago, while another General Minister Vishwaprakash Sharma has responded that the party and face will not be seen in the cooperative fraud case.

When he was in the opposition, the leader who raised a loud voice on the misappropriation and embezzlement of the savings of cooperatives is now the Home Minister. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CIB) under him has started an investigation into the embezzlement and fraud of about 140 million rupees of Miteri Savings and Loan Cooperative Society of Lalitpur, which is connected to Gurung.

Chief Minister Sharma welcomed the investigation started by CIB. "If we said that there should be an investigation when allegations are made against leaders of other parties, then if anyone thinks that there is no need for investigations when allegations are made against leaders of our own party, that is wrong," Sharma told Kantipur. We look at the fault, we don't look at the team .'

Various facts and evidences that have been made public have raised the basic question whether Gurung only got a paper 'divorce' with his wife Jyoti to avoid embezzlement and fraud of the cooperative's funds, or as he claimed, the relationship broke down because of this. Congress demands that there should be a fair investigation on all the issues that came out with this question.

After receiving a complaint from the director of the cooperative, Congress Vice President Gurung was involved in this case. He himself has welcomed the fact that CIB has started the investigation against his ex-wife Jyoti Gurung and the directors and employees.

'I demanded an investigation in the Parliament session so that the allegations against me would be clear as soon as possible, there was a news in your newspaper that the CIB had started an investigation . It is my wish that after conducting an impartial investigation, they bring the zinc as it is," he said. The Parliamentary Investigation Special Committee, which was formed three months ago under the chairmanship of MP Surya Thapa, also conducted an on-site study on Thursday. Chairman of the committee Thapa and other members made on-site inquiries with the president of the organization Kumbharaj. He said that in response to the questions of the chairman and members of the committee, one of the members said that Dhanraj Gurung was not real but had done a 'paper' divorce to avoid misappropriation of the cooperative's funds.

'While studying cooperatives in crisis, there have been 10 such divorces . The 'divorce' done by Dhanrajji has come to be added to that' said the member, 'in order to avoid embezzlement and fraud of the co-operative, it seems that more research should be done on whether the divorce is real or not . We have told the Home Minister that there should be a real investigation by the CIB.' After the divorce, on February 3, 2017, a question arose about the divorce with Jyoti after the tamsuk of taking a loan of Rs.

Before the divorce, Gurung had taken a loan of around 18 million rupees from the same cooperative for the purpose of building a house. Gurung has admitted that he took another loan of 1.2 million in February 2017 without paying the loan. In that case, when asked why he named wife Jyoti Gurung, Gurung said, "When I sent my son to study in Australia, I took a loan instead of money." At that time, I have already divorced the employees from my wife, I have written it correctly so as not to write Jyoti's name . But, later, the staff mistreated Jyoti by keeping her name as Mrs.'' Gurung said, 'I demand that this also be investigated.'

Gurung said that the loan of Rs. Another question has also been raised that if he had divorced, why did he pay the interest of the loan just four months ago? Regarding this, when Gurung requested many times that the debt should be separated after the divorce, the directors of the cooperative did not agree. After the divorce, he insisted many times that the liability of the debt should be separated.

If the owners of the cooperative cannot be separated because they have taken a joint loan as a surety . Then I started paying . However, no matter how much I paid, the debt did not decrease, the interest rate increased. Interest was added on top of interest . And it must have been around May 2081 that the cooperative paid 91 lakh 26 thousand 14 rupees in one go. Gurung was the Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs when the amount was paid. Gurung said that after the divorce with Jyoti, he sold the house he built by taking a loan from the cooperative and paid the loan of the cooperative with the same amount.

Miteri Cooperative was opened on the initiative of retired Lahures from the British and Indian Army. Leader Gurung's wife Jyoti entered the cooperative on May 12, 2057 as an assistant level employee. After 2 months, she became the accountant of Jyoti Sahakari on July 25, senior accountant on May 4, 2070 and general manager on May 4, 2075.

After becoming the general manager, it has also been revealed that he has put Jyoti Bahadur Bhandari's money as a meter badge. After she became the general manager, she repeatedly put the money of the cooperative in the meter badge to Bhandari. Initially, Jyoti Gurung withdrew 30 lakh rupees from the cooperative and gave Jyoti Bhandari a loan for one week.

It has also been revealed that Bhandari returned the amount by adding 10 million the next week after giving 40 million in the second phase. 6 million was returned for giving 5 million once. In this way, when the co-operative's money was invested in the meter bank every week, attractive money started coming, and this process increased, and she invested Bhandari in the meter bank of about 3.5 million rupees .

Congress General Minister Sharma said that the CIB should investigate the allegations impartially and bring out the truth. "The president of a new party was accused of fraud, he said that it cannot be investigated." However, there was an allegation against the Congress vice-chairman, he demanded that an inquiry be made against me from within the parliament," Sharma said. If found innocent, Ravi will also be garlanded, if found guilty, Dhanraj Gurung should also go to jail. Central member Meen Vishwakarma, who is also the head of the propaganda department of the

party, has also demanded a fair investigation against Gurung. "The responsibility of any allegation is the responsibility of the individual". The clear view of the Congress is that there should be a fair investigation of the allegations against any leader of the party, the truth should come out. He himself has demanded an investigation. As far as the question of not being separated from the official responsibility is concerned, it is too early to speak on this matter when the investigation is going on.'

प्रकाशित : भाद्र ३०, २०८१ १३:२२
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