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Ruling Congress MP Dr. Shekhar Koirala has opposed the amendment proposal of the UML, which is leading the government, which states that 'cooling off period' should be removed from the Federal Civil Bill. Koirala also responded that UML has betrayed the ruling coalition along with the country and the people by showing duplicity in the proposal to be placed in the Civil Bill.
Under the leadership of UML Chief Whip Gopal Bhattarai, MPs Sonam Gelzen Sherpa, Sumitra Bissi, Indira Devi Gautam, Rukmani Koirala put together a proposal to remove the 'cooling off period'. In section 82 (4) of the bill, the State Affairs Committee added the provision of cooling off period.
Member of the House of Representatives Koirala objected to the proposal. He expressed his opposition to the proposal of UML through social media on Sunday. "The amendment made by UML MPs in the National Assembly to the Federal Civil Bill is objectionable. It is not only the duplicitous nature of UML but also the betrayal it has given to the country, the people, democracy and the alliance to force its parliamentarians to introduce amendments contrary to the agreement between the coalition parties and the consensus in the committee,' Koirala wrote. The cooling period goes on and on and on . No one is in a dilemma .'
In the National Assembly, the MPs of the UML have filed an amendment proposal to remove the provision added by the State Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives on the Civil Bill. There is an amendment put by the UML MPs in section 82 of 'Removing point number 4 of the report of the House of Representatives State System and Good Governance Committee'. By a unanimous decision, the State Administration Committee made a provision in Section 82 (4) of the Bill on Civil Service that 'an employee who has resigned or retired from civil service or other government service shall not be appointed to any constitutional or government post before the completion of two years from the date of retirement' .
Chief Secretary Ek Narayan Aryal, who is leading the civil service, along with Secretary General Padma Prasad Pandey of the Federal Parliament Secretariat, the secretaries of the Nepal government opposed the provision. Some leaders of UML also opposed the arrangement. In the
bill, the provision passed by the committee was broken and another provision was kept intact in the report. Section 82 (5 a) of the cooling-off period rules states that no appointment can be taken except for constitutional or diplomatic appointments and any other appointments made by the Government of Nepal . The bill was passed by the House of Representatives with the report of the committee. The House of Representatives has formed an inquiry committee under the chairmanship of Congress MP Jeevan Pariyar after the provisions passed by the
committee have been put in place.
