While the Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RASWPA) is proposing to investigate the assets of people who have held public office since 2004, three MPs of the main opposition Congress have registered a proposal of public importance in the Parliament on this topic. MP Dhanraj Gurung, Joint Chief Minister Badri Pandey and Jeevan Pariyar, who is also the Congress Vice President, filed a proposal last Friday for a comprehensive investigation of the property.

After the Congress blocked Parliament on Tuesday, demanding that a parliamentary committee be formed to investigate Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane on the misappropriation of cooperative funds, Swarnim Wagle, the vice-chairman and MP of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party, raised the voice that the assets of people who have held public office since 2004 should be investigated. "The Parliamentary Inquiry Committee should not be misused as a method and tool for exposing individuals, taking revenge," he said, "It is also mentioned in the minimum common program of the ruling coalition to investigate corruption since 047." We call for a grand public inquiry into corruption in any period. It also includes cooperation.'  Soon after the

, Congress leaders said that a proposal of public importance on this matter had already been registered in the House of Representatives' Affairs Division last Friday. In the proposal, it is demanded to investigate the assets of people in public positions to maintain good governance in the country. Since 2004, Congress has been leading the government for the most part. 

Congress General Minister Bishwa Prakash Sharma claimed that the Congress is serious about both cooperatives and asset investigation as they registered a proposal of public importance in the Parliament instead of an oral statement. "We accept the counter-proposal put forward by the RSVP that the corruption since 047 should be investigated to investigate the misappropriation of the cooperative's savings," he said. Deputy Chairman Dhanraj Gurung and two Joint General Ministers have already taken it to the Parliament.

Congress General Minister Sharma has asked Home Minister Lamichhane to take the proposal to form a committee or commission to the Council of Ministers and come to Parliament. 

It is a different thing if it is brought to counter that the Congress does not accept such a proposal. Otherwise, now the issue of making a committee or commission is in the court of the government and mainly the RASWPA.' 

The practice of setting up a high-level judicial commission to demand the property details of public officials and give a report after investigation has also been done in the past. A judicial inquiry commission was formed under the leadership of former judge Bhairav ​​Prasad Lamsal on February 24, 2018 to investigate the assets of the officials who have been in various positions since 047 and who have retired. But the report of the commission has not been made public yet. It is necessary to make the report of the said committee public and implement it, it is said in the proposal of public importance registered in the Parliament.

Corruption Prevention Act, 059 states that a person holding a public office must submit the details of his and his family's assets to the relevant body, but they say that it is not working. It is also argued in the proposal that due diligence is necessary to maintain the public's trust in good governance through the effective implementation of the legal system related to anti-corruption. 

The Congress has been demanding a parliamentary inquiry since Tuesday, saying that billions of rupees have been embezzled from half a dozen cooperatives and that even Home Minister Lamichhane was involved in it. The Congress says that it was forced to interrupt the Parliament session from Tuesday after the government did not show readiness to form an inquiry committee even for a month. The Congress has also given a warning that the Parliament cannot continue until the committee is formed.

The party itself was in a state of confusion as some leaders of the Congress made the demand for a parliamentary inquiry like the agenda of Chief Minister Gagan Thapa and Vishwaprakash Sharma. Even Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba, who has been silent on this issue within the Congress, has expressed his demand for the formation of a parliamentary inquiry committee. Speaking on this issue for the first time in the parliamentary party meeting, he said that he will not back down from the demands of the parliamentary inquiry committee. "We are in the opposition, the opposition will raise the issue of wrongdoings of the government, there is no reason for the Congress to back down," said Chief Whip of the parliamentary party, Ramesh Akhtar, quoting Deuba's statement. He said that after the decision of the parliamentary party meeting, the Congress has moved forward strongly on this issue.

However, the ruling party is not in favor of a parliamentary inquiry. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has already spoken in Parliament that Home Minister Lamichhane is innocent, while UML President KP Sharma Oli has been rejecting the possibility of a parliamentary inquiry. In a meeting held by Prime Minister Dahal in Baluwatar on Tuesday morning after the parliament was suspended, both Dahal and Oli replied that a parliamentary inquiry committee could not be formed.

Leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula and General Minister Gagan Thapa arrived to participate in the Baluwatar meeting while the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting was going on. Oli retorted when both Sitaula and Thapa said that the parliamentary inquiry committee was the party's "bottom line". A leader said that Oli's answer cannot be accepted under any circumstances as the Congress has demanded a parliamentary inquiry with prejudice. "There is no right or left in the matter of the parliamentary committee, no parliamentary committee is formed by adding individuals," according to the source, Oli said.

In the Baluwatar meeting, Lamichhane said that the allegations against him were biased. He said that he was not involved in the misappropriation of Suryadarshan Cooperative's savings and asked the Congress leaders not to insist on him on the basis of that paper. He said, "If a parliamentary committee is formed based on an announcement on a person, tomorrow there will be a possibility of forming a committee on everyone."

Congress General Minister Thapa said that not only Pokhara's Suryadarshan was the issue but also that about one billion rupees came to Gorkha Media Network from cooperatives like Butwal, Chitwan, Nepalgunj, Birgunj and Kathmandu, so they demanded an investigation into that matter. So far, the ruling party has said that the Home Minister is not involved in cooperative fraud. The coordinator of the committee and the majority belong to the ruling party. Some Congress people will stay. Congress's credibility will be in trouble if not a single proof of co-operative fraud is found. If there is so much confidence that the cooperative's savings have not been embezzled, why should you be afraid?', Thapa said to Kantipur, 'If it is possible to form an investigation committee by targeting one person, billions of rupees have been defrauded from eight/ten cooperatives. How was this possible? There is a cooperative department. There are other agencies of the state. How were those bodies paralyzed? Some form of political patronage must have been obtained. Our proposal is to form a committee to find out whether powerful people are involved in such frauds. There is no need to focus on Ravi Lamichhane in this matter. But an investigation is also needed on how the defrauded money is returned.'' was told.