Source of Ordinance: Conversation between UML General Secretary Pokharel and Maoist Deputy General Secretary Pun

Magh 26, 2081

Jaya Singh Mahara

Source of Ordinance: Conversation between UML General Secretary Pokharel and Maoist Deputy General Secretary Pun

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As the ordinance brought by the government is not accepted in the federal parliament, the party leading the government, UML, is going to look for various options. Even though the ordinance is easily accepted in the House of Representatives, the UML Secretary General Shankar Pokharel talked to Varshaman Pun, Deputy Secretary General of the main opposition Maoist Center, while the government is not having a majority in the National Assembly.

Pun, the Deputy Secretary General of the Maoist Center, said on Saturday that he had received a call from UML General Secretary Pokharel and had a conversation saying that UML General Secretary Pokharel had called him to help him accept the ordinance. He said, "We had a conversation."

General Secretary Pokharel said that he would support the ordinance and if it needs to be improved, he is ready to do it in the replacement bill, Pun said. "The ordinance should be supported," he said. There was a conversation that the government did not discuss with us before bringing the ordinance. We have also opposed the process and the content, I also asked how we can help in such a situation,' Pun said, 'If the law is necessary, bring back the ordinance according to the process and bring the bill, I said we will help to pass it on the fast track.'

The parliamentarians of the main opposition Maoist Center, National Independent Party and United Socialist Party have registered 51 rejection proposals in the House of Representatives and 16 in the National Assembly in the six ordinances brought by the government. UML General Secretary Pokharel and Maoist Deputy General Secretary Pun also discussed about the rejected proposal. Pun mentioned that he told Pokharel that he would not be able to help in the case that he had submitted a rejection proposal by objecting to the contents of the ordinance. 

The government brought an ordinance to amend the Privatization Act-2050 on the promotion of good governance and public service delivery, economic procedures and financial responsibility, an ordinance on improving the economic and business environment and increasing investment, an ordinance on cooperatives and an ordinance on land . The government submitted the ordinances in the House of Representatives and the National Assembly in the first meeting of the winter session of the Parliament starting on January 18.

The Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal, which supported the government in the ordinance, is protesting. Jaspa Nepal has objected mainly to the provisions made in the land ordinance.

JSP Nepal has said that it will decide whether to support or oppose the ordinance after putting it on the agenda of the parliament to accept the ordinance. Rajkishore Yadav, the first vice president of Jaspa Nepal, said that the party is ready to give its decision on the matter of the ordinance and that the matter related to the ordinance will come after it is on the agenda of the parliament. 

Jaspa Nepal was preparing to take a decision from the parliamentary party on Saturday whether to support the government by accepting the ordinance or rejecting it. However, the meeting of the parliamentary party has not been held. Since the issue of the ordinance was removed from the agenda of the Parliament on Thursday, it was concluded that the JSP Nepal Parliamentary Party meeting would sit again on Saturday and take a decision without making a decision. He formed a working group under the leadership of First Vice President Yadav to study the Ordinance. The working group has already submitted the report to the party. A UML leader said that it is not unusual for the ruling party to talk to the main opposition regarding the

ordinance. The leader said that there was a discussion between the general secretary and the Maoist leader about what options could be taken by talking to the Maoists when JSP Nepal would continue to support the government and even give trouble if necessary. Talking to the main opposition is nothing new in a parliamentary democracy. Ordinances and bills are being discussed in the parliament. Now there has been a discussion about whether there can be some alternative regarding the ordinance,' said the leader, 'JSP Nepal is also supporting the government and is also sitting in the seat of the ruling party . On the other hand, Goundo is causing trouble by waiting.' After not taking a decision on whether to support JSP Nepal or not in the National Assembly, UML, which is leading the government, has asked the main opposition Maoists for help in passing the ordinance. 

The ruling coalition does not have a solid majority in the National Assembly. In the 59-member National Assembly, a majority vote of at least 30 MPs is required to pass an ordinance. In the National Assembly, there are 29 MPs including 16 from Congress, 10 from UML, 2 nominated and 1 from LOSPA in favor of the Ordinance. In the opposition, there are 26 MPs including 17 from the Maoists, 8 from the United Socialist Party and 1 from the Rashtriya Janamorcha. There are 3 MPs of JSP Nepal yet to take a decision to accept or reject the ordinance. If JSP Nepal decides to accept the ordinance, there will be a majority in the ordinance, if JSP stands in favor of rejecting the ordinance, there will be equal 29-29 MPs on both sides. In such a case, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Narayan Prasad Dahal, has to vote. Dahal is an MP nominated by the President. He was the leader of the Maoist Center in the past.

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