Due to the lack of agreement between the ruling party and the opposition regarding the formation of a judicial or parliamentary inquiry committee, the meeting of the House of Representatives on Tuesday was also interrupted, and the notice was removed and adjourned until Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
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The opposition parties, which have been obstructing the Parliament demanding the resignation of Home Minister Ramesh Ukhar over the visit visa issue, have become flexible on the issue of the resignation of the author. Their position is that a parliamentary or judicial inquiry committee should be formed to investigate irregularities in visit visas, corruption and human trafficking.
The meeting of the House of Representatives was also interrupted on Tuesday as there was no agreement between the ruling party and the opposition regarding the formation of the committee.
The opposition parties demanded that the home minister be allowed to address the meeting on Tuesday, but the formation of the inquiry committee should be announced. However, the ruling UML and Congress have maintained that another judicial or parliamentary investigation committee cannot be formed as the Commission on Abuse of Authority is investigating the visit visa case.
The third meeting of the House of Representatives has been disrupted over the visit visa issue. Earlier, the meeting called for May 13 and 14 was interrupted by the opposition parties.
The opposition parties, who have been obstructing the Parliament by making the Home Minister's resignation a major issue, have started insisting on the formation of a committee since the resignation alone will not stop the irregularities in visit visas, corruption and human trafficking and the previous incidents will not be investigated. Hitraj Pandey, chief whip of the main opposition Maoists, said that the Home Minister's resignation was only requested to pave the way for the investigation of the visit visa case.
According to Pandey, the party is moving forward by focusing on good governance and corruption control after investigating the case. What we need is an investigation. We have not asked the Home Minister to resign by accusing the writer. We are not formally accusing the author. If Ramesh Akhtar resigns, another home minister from the ruling party will come.
Then our problem is solved? Even when Barshman Pun spoke on behalf of the party in the House of Representatives on May 13, he did not say his resignation. Even after the discussion between the Prime Minister, the Congress President and our President on Monday, I have not asked for the Home Minister's resignation," Chief Whip Pandey said. It had to be mandated. It has been said that the resignation of the Home Minister should pave the way for the investigation. It is a matter of investigation as to who should resign and who should be prosecuted. It is not important whether the minister is an employee or not, he fought in favor of good governance, even now the human trafficking that is happening on visit visas is corruption, we have demanded that it be controlled.
The opposition RSVP has also said that the resignation of the home minister is not an important issue, saying that no Nepali should be cheated in immigration. Acting Spokesperson of RSVP Manish Jha has said, "We are not behind one person, one party leader. This case is important for us. We have already said that we should investigate all the Home Ministers since 2064 to solve it.'' Jha says that why Nepalese who go on visit visa are cheated in immigration is important for the party. Jha's reaction was that the opposition demanded that no Nepali should be cheated in immigration at Tribhuvan International Airport in the future, but the ruling party understood and understood. He added, "The current Prime Minister and the Home Minister should have said that there is a problem so far and let's solve it together." But they are trying to escape as 'an employee'.'
Congress chief whip Shyam Kumar Ghimire said that the authority has started an investigation to see if the ruling party's employees have committed irregularities and for that, they have received information that laptops and mobile phones are being tested in the forensic lab.
In this case, no question has been raised about the Home Minister, no complaint, no evidence of involvement has been presented. I think they are embarrassed by the resignation they asked for. Prior to this, when Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the Chief Secretary, Baikunth Aryal was prosecuted and suspended by the Authority. Narayankaji Shrestha was the home minister during the gold scandal, and when such things happened time and again, no one asked for his resignation and no one raised questions about him. It was said that there has been an investigation on the employee,' Ghimire said, 'In today's meeting, they emphasized on the investigation committee rather than resignation. We felt as if they left the issue of resignation.'
Ghimire also clarified that the ruling party is not ready to form an inquiry committee as the authority is investigating. If an investigation committee is formed, the body that prosecutes the case based on the report prepared by it is the authority. At present, when the authority is conducting the investigation, we should only look at it and move forward. So far they are sticking to the inquiry committee issue. If the authority had not looked into it, it could have gone to the investigation committee. As the authority is watching, their demand is not according to the constitution and the law. There is no need for more committees," said Ghimire. He demanded that the opposition parties should be prepared to remove the obstruction of the parliament and should take responsibility for passing the budget.
RSVP MP Jha said that the investigation committee was requested because the authority could not investigate all aspects of the visit visa case. Akhtiyar can only see the scope of the employee, he cannot go beyond that. This could involve politicians, private sector travel agencies, etc., which is beyond the authority's purview. The authority's process is not enough to include everyone in the investigation, it is demanded that another special investigation committee should be formed for this. We want this case to be solved forever, we are not behind the post of one person.'
UML's chief whip Mahesh Bertaula says that the opposition's demand that an inquiry committee should be formed by prohibiting the home minister from answering. He said that the Home Minister has not only the right to answer the questions raised on him, but because it is also a parliamentary practice, the opposition did not agree even though he demanded to create an environment for it. "The opposition could have been happy when the home minister answered the questions raised against him, but they did not accept that step," he said.
