RSVP MP Sobita Gautam has alleged that Speaker Devraj Ghimire is trying to stop MPs from speaking. Gautam has written on social media that Speaker Ghimire is repeatedly stopping opposition MPs from speaking on the grounds of fairness.
MP Gautam wrote on social media on Monday that Speaker Ghimire is preventing MPs from speaking. "Parliament is the voice of the people, it is a place to raise issues of injustice and find answers". But I don't understand why they try to stop the voice before the MP speaks,' wrote Gautam. "When the MP asks for emergency time, the Speaker first asks, 'What are you going to speak?' He tries to find out, and what we can talk about is limited by his choice . Parliament is an open forum for ideas, but why does the Speaker himself try to fence it?'
MP Gautam says that Speaker Ghimire is going to appear in the Parliament with a side. Speaker is like an umpire, a person who makes the game fair. But when he tries to be a player himself, the scales of justice tilts by itself,' wrote Gautam, 'If the Speaker continues this behavior, freedom will be bound and the voice of resistance will continue to resound louder.'
Gautam says that when trying to speak about the mistakes made by the government in Parliament, the speaker does not give time. She has written, 'Because we were not allowed to speak in the first meeting of this session, we stood up with the demand that all the parliamentarians of the RSVP should be allowed to speak . However, despite our demands and objections, we boycotted the parliament for 15 minutes as a symbolic protest after the parliament was held without hesitation. Despite this, the speaker conducted the parliament without any difficulty.'
She has also said that the Speaker has not taken any initiative to listen to the opposition of the fourth party in Parliament. Gautam says that it is wrong to think that the Speaker has succeeded by stopping the question from being raised in the Parliament. He wrote that such behavior will attack the parliamentary system.
Speaker Ghimire stopped RSVP MP Sumana Shrestha from speaking in Monday's meeting. During the emergency, she tried to speak in the House about the treatment of Nepali students at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha, India. Similarly, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ajay Chaurasia tried to speak to MP Gautam against the violation of parliamentary tradition while passing the legislative bill, but the Speaker did not give him time. In Sunday's meeting, independent MP Prabhu Sah did not give time even when he tried to oppose the rules.
