Discussions on the budget, important bills and issues related to citizens' concerns have been stopped when the opposition parties blocked the parliament for two weeks regarding the visit visa issue. After the Authority started investigation on Tribhuvan International Airport Immigration chief Tirtharaj Bhattarai, the opposition party has not allowed the Parliament meeting since May 13 except to present the budget, demanding further investigation including the Home Minister Ramesh Akhtar.

Even on Wednesday, the obstruction of the Parliament by demanding the formation of a competent parliamentary committee to investigate the visit visa issue could not be resolved. Although there was a theoretical agreement between the ruling UML and the Congress and the main opposition Maoists, the agreement could not be reached due to the stance of the RSVP last time. There is a difference of opinion on the language and points of the agreement between the Maoists and the RSVP.

The leaders of the ruling party say that it is biased to demand the resignation of the Home Minister and the parliamentary inquiry committee in connection with the investigation being conducted on the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Due to the stance of the ruling party and the opposition, the discussion on the budget brought for the next financial year has been stopped.

Especially in this year's budget, even in this year's budget, the controversial issues such as the programs are arranged to suit their leaders and workers, only the titles are set up so that the funds are changed, and the budget allocation to the party's fraternal organizations have not been able to come up for discussion. Apart from this, there is no discussion about the inequality in budget distribution, tax rates and new and old programs. On the other hand, the debate on citizens' issues in the Parliament has also been stopped. Due to the stance of the

parties, the Parliament disruption seems to be prolonged. "Since UML and Congress are not on the side of meeting the demands of the opposition, the main opposition Maoists have become somewhat flexible, but the impasse in Parliament is getting longer as the RSVP does not give up," says Shyam Ghimire, chief whip of the Congress.

After the dialogue between Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Maoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal three days ago, the main opposition has been positive to open the impasse in Parliament. But the RSVP has been opposing the principled agreement between the Congress and the Maoists.

Not only has the discussion on the budget stopped because the parliament session could not be held, the federal civil and education bills included in the budget's policies and programs to be passed by this session have not been able to proceed. The agreement reached between the government and the teachers' federation on June 15 regarding the passage of the education bill by the parliament has also been affected.

The MPs are dissatisfied with the ministers because the government has not distributed the budget equitably and the budget has been allocated against the standards made by itself. Parliamentarians themselves have been deprived of the opportunity to ask questions and hold ministers accountable in Parliament when Parliament is not open. Ministers have been 'highly praised'.

Leaders say that Maoist Chairman Dahal, who wants to agree with the RSVP to open the parliament, will return to Kathmandu on Thursday and ask for time from the ruling parties. A theoretical understanding has already been reached between UML-Congress and the main opposition Maoists to 'find a middle way solution'.

Maoist Deputy General Secretary Shakti Bahadur Basnet has agreed on the two-point document, Congress, UML and Maoists are ready to move forward. Mahesh Bertaula, chief whip of the UML parliamentary party, said that the ruling Congress, UML, the main opposition and the Unified Samajwadi Party are in one place to find consensus on the policy, structural, legal and administrative reforms that should be done on behalf of the government in immigration according to the proposal made by the Maoists.

"Furthermore, based on the questions and suggestions raised in the parliament, the four parties have agreed to open the parliament after discussing with us in the direction of taking the government more seriously," he says, "It is not appropriate to demand a parliamentary inquiry by disbelieving the inquiry being conducted by an independent constitutional body, it is not agreed upon." Another thing is that the Home Minister will resign.'' "The RSVP is protesting against the Home Minister with a sense of revenge, it is not proper from the parliamentary point of view to have a sense of revenge, nor is it a parliamentary tradition and culture," he said.

According to an official of the Congress, the first of the two-point proposals prepared by the Maoists is that the government should help the investigation and investigation being done by the authority and secondly, the government should take concrete initiatives for policy, legal, administrative and structural reforms to eliminate the shortcomings of immigration. "There was no problem in going to this agreement, we were ready, but the UML itself talked about the consent regarding the investigation on an employee," said the official, "but it was delayed because the RASWPA did not agree and the Maoist took time to convince the RASWPA too." Later UML was 'briefed' by Congress and RASWP by Maoists. The RSVP said that it is not a subject of parliamentary inquiry and has brought a five-point proposal for the discussion with the demand for the resignation of the Home Minister and a parliamentary inquiry committee. Which Congress and UML have been flatly denying. Maoist Deputy General Secretary Basnet said that a theoretical understanding has been reached between Congress, UML and Maoists to find a middle way solution.

"There is a delay in opening the Parliament's barrier because the house work of persuading even the RSVP is going on," he said. Maoist Chairman Dahal himself asked for a day's time on Wednesday after the Congress and UML proceeded with the preparations to resume the parliament despite the obstacles of the opposition. As he is in Mustang, he has not been able to communicate with the opposition parties, he has signaled to the leaders of the ruling party to hold a decisive discussion to open the deadlock in the parliament from Thursday. After the meeting with Deuba, Congress Vice President Purna Bahadur Khadka is communicating with Dahal.

"The President has been in Mustang's program since Tuesday, as he was not in the capital, the decisive conversation could not take place on Wednesday," Deputy Secretary General Basnet, who was with Dahal, said to Kantipur, "Our conversation is positive." It has also been delayed to bring together all the opposition parties. After the president returns to the capital on Thursday, a decisive dialogue will be held and the deadlock in the parliament will probably be resolved on Thursday itself. Congress Chief Whip Ghimire said that if the Home Minister resigns over the investigation on an employee, and if a parliamentary committee is formed, there will be no more chaos in politics than this. He said that in all the ministries some or the other employees will be drawn into corruption and no minister will be 'safe' due to this pattern.

RSVP's chief whip Santosh Pariyar said that the parliamentary inquiry committee is the bottom line of RSVP. "Since there is no question of investigation and parliamentary committee in the two-point agreement, it has been rejected and entered into the five-point discussion," says Pariyar, "If the Maoists agree and our demands are not met, the agitation will continue." He said that they are with the Maoists till Wednesday. "Until today, we are in one place, tomorrow there will be a dialogue," he said, "If the state believes that we are in favor of good governance, we are in favor of the people, and we are against corruption, then a parliamentary investigation committee should be formed." Our point is clear.

Last year too, there was a disruption in the Parliament during the budget. At that time, the Congress, which was in the opposition, obstructed the Parliament by demanding an investigation into the then Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane, who was also the chairman of the RSVP.

"The RSVP is now trying to take revenge by linking the issues raised by the Congress, but the incident and the scenario are all different," says another official of the Congress, "The evidence linked to cooperative fraud against Lamichhane, who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister at that time, was made public. Johari was against him. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CIB), which is subordinate to the Home Minister, did not conduct an investigation at that time.' "No facts, statements and proofs have been found, it has been said only by linking the investigation on the joint secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, so it is wrong to say that the two incidents are the same," he said.

'There has been an agreement in principle to investigate the visit visa case'

Shakti Basnet Deputy Secretary General, Maoist

Is there an allegation that the opposition has made Parliament hostage when there should be a serious discussion on the budget?

Efforts are being made to reach a consensus every day, but the deadlock in parliament has not been lifted. Discussions have progressed towards an agreement between the parties. Our party president Prachanda is outside the valley. After returning to Kathmandu on Thursday, the final discussion will be held. Consensus is not only what the opposition wants, but the ruling party also has to be ready. We have been flexible to agree.

Why is there no consensus?

There is no objection to studying and investigating the case of visit visa. How to finalize the agreement in principle is being debated. The discussion is focused on who will conduct the investigation. Since the authority is also investigating this matter, the concrete mandate of how the next investigation committee will work has yet to be agreed upon. Now it will be discussed at the top level, President Prachanda Kathmandu. After returning, we expect to reach a positive conclusion on Thursday.

 The parties are trying to form a judicial investigation committee or a parliamentary one?

This topic is yet to be concluded, now it will be discussed. It is better to form a judicial committee as much as possible. Because the visit visa issue is not a common issue. A detailed investigation is required. We want the investigation to show the way to prevent such cases from happening in the future.

UMA led the government in consensus seems indifferent? All parties are engaged in discussion that

should be agreed upon. It is a matter of time that there is no need to form an inquiry committee, the recent discussions have been positive. Now we believe that all issues will be resolved on Thursday.

Isn't it time to have a serious discussion about the budget?

After the budget was presented in the parliament, it could not be discussed. This has happened in the past as well. After the opening of the parliament, one can cheat by holding a long meeting for 9 or 10 hours. Everyone knows how the budget is passed. The budget will be passed through a process, the budget will be discussed after the opening of the parliament.

Who is more responsible for blocking parliament?

may have its own claims. After the visit visa case, there is no objection that there should be an investigation, everyone has agreed in principle. I think the ruling party should still be serious about this issue.

When the parliament was blocked, the bills were also stuck, right?

The bill is being discussed in the mini-parliament, some of the bills are being agreed upon.

 It is said that there is an agreement with the Congress-Maoist on the visit visa issue?

We are in the process of agreeing on the formation of an investigation committee among all parties, it depends on the issue of whether it is close or far.

Why was the Maoist flexible about asking for the resignation of the Home Minister? The Maoists are clear that there should be a study and investigation in the