10 MPs put dozens of questions to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in the Sunday meeting of the House of Representatives. However, some of them got answers and some counter-questions. MP Prabhu Sah did not get an answer.
It was already decided that the Prime Minister will answer the MP's questions in the meeting. Oli, who answered MP's questions for almost 1 and a half hours, did not answer the last question. He was angered by the question asked by the independent MP Shah. Shah submitted 8 written questions to the Parliament Secretariat to ask the Prime Minister.
MP Shah asked for information about the number of foreigners who renounced their Nepali citizenship and the status of their ancestral property. More than 7 million Nepalese youth are currently employed abroad. According to their labor contract, more than 40 billion remittances should come every year. However, this year there is a possibility of 13-14 billion in total. Why didn't the youth bring the money they had earned abroad to Nepal?' was Sah's question.
He also questioned about Prime Minister Oli's visit to India. You said publicly that you are going to visit India, when did you mean that? Why did you go without an invitation? Don't you feel that this has damaged the reputation of the country?'' was his question. Sah also questioned about the ordinance not being approved. In the
reply, Prime Minister Oli said, 'His questions are insulting because of the opposition, hatred, anger etc. in his mind. Such language in a dignified place like Parliament? What benefit did you get by sending young people abroad, like language - that I am a man of manpower company? Now after I came to the government, it started from 8 months? You said 70 lakhs went in 8 months?'' After the counter question came, Sah asked for time to pass the law, but Speaker Devraj Ghimire did not give time. After that, Prime Minister Oli said that there is no need to continue answering his questions.
The first question to the Prime Minister was asked by Prakash Jwala of the United Samajwadi Party. He said that 165 constituencies are stuck due to lack of strategic road and municipal hospital budget and asked how the work is planned to be completed in the coming days. He also questioned about the lack of housing in earthquake-affected Jajarkot, Rukum Paschim, and Salyan districts. In response to
, Oli said, "I realized the need for strategic roads in the electoral area and basic hospitals in every municipality and started the construction of them." But shortly after that, the government changed and I was out. Subsequent governments canceled those programs. Construction stopped. I think that the honorable questioner was also the minister of physical infrastructure in the subsequent government. We have a strange tradition that those who cancel the programs will seek their progress again.
He said that the government has given high priority to the health sector. The Prime Minister informed that an amount of 3 billion 95 crore 65 million has been disbursed so far in the districts affected by the Jajarkot earthquake.
UML MP Pratishka Tiwari asked about the initiatives taken by the government to complete the projects of national pride under construction in Madhesh province. The Prime Minister had said, 'By allocating a significant budget for such projects, the agencies involved in the implementation of the project have been made active.' In response, Oli said, 'Thank you to the questioner, who was also the finance minister before, for worrying about the country's economy. 7 months ago you were the finance minister yourself. I request him to see the ratio of price increase before that time and since then.
Congress MP Pratima Gautam questioned the government's efforts to solve the problem of large national projects being left unfinished for decades. Prime Minister Oli replied that the Ministry of Finance will facilitate policy and procedures to manage the budget through money transfers to prevent shortage of resources.
