Four meetings of the sub-committee formed by the Constitution Committee to discuss the Federal Civil Bill have been completed. How are the main controversial issues of the bill being discussed in the sub-committee meeting? What is the opinion of the government side? What do the MPs say? How are the MP's amendment proposals being included in the controversial matter? Secret meetings are being held to prevent the discussion on the topic from becoming public.

The Constitution Committee formed an 11-member sub-committee chaired by the ruling Congress MP Dilendra Prasad Badu to discuss the Federal Civil Bill. In this sub-committee Ishwaridevi Neupane of Congress, Raghuji Pant of UML and Leelanath Shrestha, Hitraj Pandey of Maoist, Dr. Chanda Karki, Wise Tamang of RPP, Ashok Rai of JSPA, Prakash Adhikari of JSPA Nepal, Rajendra Pandey of United Samajwadi Party and Sarvendranath Shukla of LOSPA are members. 

Officials of the Public Service Commission, Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration, Ministry of Law, who are concerned with the bill, demanded to hold a secret meeting, so journalists were not allowed to report on the discussion in the sub-committee, according to MPs and officials of the committee secretariat. According to them, the upcoming meeting of the sub-committee to discuss the civil bill will also be kept secret. 

The Chairman of the State Administration Committee, Ramhari Khatiwada, said that he has finalized the clauses 1 to 10 of the Federal Civil Bill and sent it to the sub-committee. "We have decided on 10 clauses of the Civil Bill by the full committee, all the subsequent clauses will be decided by the sub-committee," said Khatiwada, "the media was not allowed to come to the sub-committee at the request of experts and the Public Service Commission who advised on this bill." Khatiwada also said that he is participating in every meeting of this sub-committee.

A UML MP who is a member of the sub-committee requested not to mention the name and said that the meeting was not allowed to be reported on the request of the MP. "When the media is placed in the subcommittee, it is difficult for us to discuss it." It means that we should not keep the media . On the same subject, MPs have one thing the day before and another thing tomorrow . There was a problem when that became public. We want the media not to enter,' said the MP.

Congress MP Ishwaridevi Neupane said that a secret meeting was held to seriously discuss the issues in the bill. Many subjects of the civil bill are controversial. When they decide and go to the full committee, then everyone will know,' she said about the reason for blocking the media entry, 'In the committee, one thing happens, outside it, another thing happens . After squeezing the bill, the coordinator should publicize everything about how the decision was made . It is not necessary to be public about what happened in the discussion now.'

Hitraj Pandey, who is also the chief whip of the main opposition Maoists, said that the influence of the government has reached through the parliament, the parliamentary committee and the sub-committee. 'The media is not kept in the formal meeting of the sub-committee . Ask the coordinator about this. The people of the government have said that they have not been able to discuss with the media. There was a consultation with the Public Service Commission. They said that they had to talk without the media,' said Pandey, 'Parliament has a policy of keeping it open . The opposition is not saying that the committee meetings should be closed. But where has the opposition done as they say? I said that the parliament and the committee came under the government.' He said that the government has 'minimized' parliamentary activities.

sub-committee coordinator Badu admitted that the media was not allowed to enter the meeting because the government official said 'we want to do internal matters separately'. "He started to understand what happened in the meeting in his own way, so we decided to discuss it properly," he said. In the

sub-committee, Jaspa, Nepal MP Prakash Adhikari said that MPs were not informed about media access in the meeting. "Even today, I did not see journalists in the meeting." I thought that he would not come. It was not informed that the media was not allowed to enter. Sub-committee coordinator Badu and committee chairman Khatiwada must have decided,' the official said, 'It makes no sense to allow entry to the committee meeting but not to allow journalists to enter the sub-committee. A sub-committee has been formed so that the full committee does not reach a quorum and the discussion is reduced. The media should enter there.'

The State System Committee had previously formed a sub-committee to resolve the controversial issues of the Anti-Corruption Bill and the Bill related to the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission. The sub-committee formed under the chairmanship of Congress MP Hridayram Thani allowed media access to all the meetings. Thani said, "The journalists did not come to the first meeting of the sub-committee. We asked them to come from the next day." It should be open how the laws are being made in a democracy. How will the people know when the law is made by holding a secret meeting?,' said Thani.