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Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar has commented that the allegations leveled against him regarding the case of illegal collection of visit visas are motivated by political bias rather than facts and grounds. He also said that it is wrong to link the investigation started on an employee by the Commission on Abuse of Authority with the leadership of the relevant ministry before it is completed.
Despite demanding time to speak in the Parliament, after the opposition parties continued to disrupt the meeting, the Home Minister Ekater held a press conference at the Lhotse Hall of the Parliament Building on Wednesday and refuted the allegations against him.
The opposition parties are demanding the resignation of the Interior Minister, claiming the involvement of the Nepalese nationals abroad on visit visas after the Authority started an investigation into the issue of raising money in 'setting'. They have been raising questions on the Home Minister author by linking the transfer of Tirtharaj Bhattarai, joint secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, to the immigration office of the airport and his return home.
The Home Minister writer said that he did not bring Joint Secretary Bhattarai to the Home Ministry. He also informed that before his arrival, Bhattarai had already worked in the National Identity and Registration and Criminal Management Department. He also mentioned that he has worked as Chief District Officer in Morang, Mahottari and Gorkha.
'It is being accused as if I dragged the immigration from another place to the Ministry of Home Affairs. That's not it. Ram Bahadur Thapa was the home minister when he was the chief district officer in Gorkha and Mahottari," the writer said in a press conference, "In 078, Director General of National Identity Cards and Registration, Banda Balakrishna Khan was the home minister. Ravi Lamichhane was the Home Minister when he was the Chief District Officer of Morang on 12 Jan 078. Later, when Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the Prime Minister and Narayankaji Shrestha was the Home Minister, he remained as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.'' According to him, when Lamichhane was the Home Minister, Bhattarai was the Director General of the Criminal Property Management Department under the Ministry. "While he was there, I transferred to the immigration office," said the writer.
The home minister writer also mentioned the statement he gave when the Congress blocked the parliament by demanding a parliamentary inquiry against the then home minister Lamichhane. "If any honorable minister comes under investigation, questions are raised, if there is a situation where a competent agency of the state has to investigate, such honorable minister should not remain in the position of minister," he said at that time.
At that time, the Home Minister writer said in a press conference on Wednesday that the institutional "position" of the party was not the resignation of the Home Minister, but a parliamentary inquiry. According to the writer, the fact that the then Home Minister was involved in the co-operative fraud case, the victims filed a complaint against Lamichhane, the Home Minister is being investigated and the police are investigating it, the question was raised about Lamichhane.
Currently, the author said that it is planned to raise questions on the Home Minister when the authorities, not the Home Ministry, are investigating the staff including the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Bhattarai. Once a question was raised about the Chief Secretary. After investigation, a case was filed in a special court. The Chief Secretary is appointed by the Prime Minister. Should the prime minister resign now?' he said.
The Home Minister said that there is a legal system in which a person who commits a crime is guilty of a criminal offence. Let's not exaggerate by linking me to a non-existent subject. I don't think this is anything but a misadventure to discourage politicians who have hated crime all their lives by broadcasting misleading content,' he said.
