Janamat Party's Lumbini State Assembly Member Geeta Gurung has sent her handwritten resignation letter to the State Assembly through email. She has been living in UK for two months. On Tuesday, her husband Kailash Gurung published the letter through social media, claiming to have resigned from the post of state assembly member.
Provincial Assembly Secretary Durbar Kumar Pun informed that although the resignation letter was received in the name of Geeta Gurung in the email of the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, the process was not completed. He said that after the letter received from the email was suspicious, a correspondence was sent asking for clear information with more details.
"We received the resignation letter by email, but after doubting who sent it, a letter was written to clarify more details," Pun said, "It was sent from a different email than from the email address mentioned in the letterpad of the Hon.
Due to the failure of the resignation process, Speaker Tularam Gharti Magar has instructed the Provincial Assembly members to attend and authenticate the signatures. Pun informed that the further process will proceed only if the letter sent from the provincial assembly is received or after Gurung himself attends.
Gurung, who was elected from the proportional representation of the Janmat Party, is the member with the lowest attendance in the state assembly. She attended only 34 days out of 83 meetings up to the fifth session of the Provincial Assembly. She attended only 32 days out of 73 meetings up to the fourth session and only 2 days out of 10 meetings of the fifth session, Kamala Pokharel Paudel, spokesperson of the Provincial Assembly Secretariat, informed.
Geeta Gurung has been living in Britain for a long time. His two children are also in the UK. Due to her husband Kailash Gurung's personal relationship with Janmat Party president CK Raut, she was elected through proportional quota while she was still in the UK.
A leader of the Janmat Party said that he came from the UK and got the certificate of the provincial assembly member after he was elected. Sources claim that she returned to the UK twice after being elected as a member of the provincial assembly and resigned to live there now.
In her resignation letter addressed to the Speaker, Gurung mentioned her belief that 'no one is above the nation, the country and the people'. She has written, 'It is not appropriate to receive a salary from the taxes paid by the people, so I submit my resignation to be relieved from the post from today.'
Janmat Party Lumbini Pradesh Parliamentary Party leader Chandrakesh Gupta informed that Gurung has been out of touch with the party for a long time. He claimed that the Speaker did not want to accept his resignation. "After the information about the resignation, I requested the approval of the Speaker," Gupta said. Gupta said that Gurung's husband, Kailash, was bargaining for a ministerial post and now, after leaving the Janmat Party and joining Upendra Yadav's Jaspa and becoming a central member, there was talk of resignation.
