Even though there is a demand for comprehensive action regarding the audio of General Administration Minister Rajkumar Gupta's bribe 'dealing', Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who headed the Good Governance Commission, is entangled in the discussion, and even after 20 days of the complaint, the authority is still confused.

Even though the complaint was filed on June 10, Minister Gupta has not been summoned to take a statement. After the news became public and the pressure increased, the authority sent the audio to the forensic laboratory for testing.

UML leader Khem Bahadur Pun's appointment as the chairman of Land Commission Kaski is being protested from the streets to the House because the government has remained silent even when the audio of the 'deal' with the middleman who came to pay money for the appointment has been made public. 

Prime Minister Oli called Minister Gupta on Monday and spoke to him after the pressure increased. But there was no decision or initiative to dismiss Gupta's ministerial post or take action against him. On the contrary, in the evening, Gupta along with other ministers also entered Baluwatar with Sanban, participated in the cabinet meeting. 

Prime Minister Oli, who never gets tired of claiming that he has a policy of zero tolerance towards corruption, keeps saying that he will not even look at the face of a corrupt person. He has been saying, "I do not do corruption, I do not allow others to do it, if I am found to have done any corruption, I am ready to give a statement not only on this earth, but also before Chitragupta." 

Prime Minister Oli, who kept repeating these words after his speech, had to see the face of Minister Gupta, who is also the leader of his own party UML, who had dealt with bribes twice on Monday. In the afternoon when he called for inquiries and in the evening at the cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Oli did not give any indication of firing Gupta or forcing him to resign. Instead, he quickly finished the cabinet meeting in 45 minutes.  At the beginning of the

meeting, the agenda was presented, discussions and decisions were made immediately. One of the major decisions of the meeting was to form a committee under the leadership of former high court judge Krishna Giri to investigate Sharad Ojha, chairman of Nepal Insurance Authority. The government was not satisfied with Ojha, who was the president from the Congress quota. According to the ministers, Prime Minister Oli announced that the meeting was over soon, saying that he had work to do. 

On the other hand, the investigation officers of the authority said that it will be easy to proceed with the investigation after the "lab report" of the audio. On June 10, a complaint was filed with the authority saying that Minister Gupta was involved in the bribery case. Almost three weeks after the complaint, the audio material has been sent for lab testing. 

"A cursory look at the context of the audio and its vested interest, even though it is in the name of giving land to squatters and landless people, its underlying purpose is connected to the phenomenon of eating/grabbing government/public land," says an officer of the authority, "In this, leaders/employees, middlemen and interest groups work together to embezzle government property, give land to squatters in the name of squatters, and accept bribes in the same way. The current audio is also the same. Maybe, there will be a subtle investigation, if the crime is confirmed, the person involved will be brought to the scope of action.'' According to the official, this bribery dialogue can be dated 28 December 2081, considering the details and context mentioned in the

audio. According to him, it is assumed that the place where the bribe was 'dealt' may be the minister's quarters in Bhainsepati. In the 9 minute and 13 second conversation between Minister Gupta, a middle man and a woman, they are heard being casual and comfortable with each other. Earlier, when KP Sharma Oli was the Prime Minister, the then Minister of Communications Gokul Baskota was involved in the bribery 'deal' case for the purchase of 'security printing' equipment. At that time, a complaint was filed with the authority along with the audio of the bribe conversation.

But the authority granted immunity to Baskota from the case in 2077 on the pretext that "evidence was not found to confirm that Baskota took bribe". The complaint was put on hold.

Parliamentarians' demand to relieve Gupta

MPs from the opposition and the ruling party also demanded in Monday's meeting of the House of Representatives to relieve Minister Gupta from his position and to proceed with the investigation. The leader of the main opposition party, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, said, "Your ministers are openly dealing with lakhs of rupees." Prime Minister, where are you going to give a statement to Chitragupta? Where there is government, there is corruption and corruption. He accused the prime minister and ministers of trying to fulfill the interests of middlemen. 

UML MP Kiran Kumar Sah also demanded the government to dismiss Minister Gupta from the Parliament meeting. Sah, who is also the Chairperson of the Women and Social Affairs Committee of the UML, questioned the government's silence regarding Minister Gupta's bribery 'deal'. "Why is the government silent when the audio of General Administration Minister Rajkumar Guptaji's bribe dealing has been made public?," he said. I demand through this House, Gupta should be sacked and a fair investigation should be conducted.' 

Power partner Congress General Minister Gagan Thapa also called on the Prime Minister from a public platform to fire Minister Gupta. "I expected the Prime Minister to fire the minister immediately, I didn't think it was necessary to comment on that, but the situation has come," said Thapa, "I want to request the Prime Minister, fire your minister immediately." Thapa said that after the question was raised in public, the truth should be investigated and Prime Minister Oli should make the environment easier by dismissing the minister. "Who else is involved in this, if there are any, it is too hasty to comment on anyone, if anyone seems to be guilty, action should be taken," he said. His answer was in the House of Representatives meeting where he and none of his subordinates were present. Maoist MP Madhav Prasad Sapkota asked the minister, "The audio of the Minister of General Administration has arrived. In that audio, the minister has made serious accusations against the officer as well. If it is not the involvement as you said, why has it not been refuted till today and why has there not been a satisfactory answer? In the