In the House of Representatives meeting on Wednesday, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli informed the House about Nepal's participation in the Third UN Conference of Landlocked Developing Countries in Turkmenistan and the current political situation in the country.

  After the Prime Minister's speech, all the ministers and most of the MPs from the ruling party were present. Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, who rarely comes to the Parliament, was also in the meeting. 

In the meeting on Wednesday, three ministers of the government answered the written questions of MPs. But after hearing the Prime Minister's speech and the ministers' replies, the MPs started leaving. Meanwhile, Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvisubba Gurung presented a proposal that 'Information Technology and Cyber Security Bill 2082 should be considered'.

After the MPs discussed the proposal, Speaker Devraj Ghimire proposed that the bill be considered. Until now, the MP's chair was vacant.

After the Speaker presented the motion for decision, the main opposition Maoist MP Gyanu Basnet Subedi raised the issue of quorum. Referring to the provisions of Article 94 of the Constitution, she said, "When any proposal is submitted for decision, one-fourth of the members of the House of Representatives must be present, but I request for the calculation of whether the quorum is reached/not enough." Then the Speaker of the House rang the bell for 3 minutes and instructed the Parliament Secretariat to determine the quorum. When counting, a quarter ie 69 MPs did not reach the meeting room. 

And the Speaker said, "According to Article 94 of the Constitution of Nepal, a quarter of the members of the House of Representatives must be present to submit any question or proposal for decision." When the quorum was determined by ringing the bell for three minutes, the quorum should be 69 to submit this proposal for decision. Since there were only 66 honorable members in the meeting, I would like to inform you that the remaining quorum has been removed from the program list. After the quorum was not reached, the meeting was adjourned to be held on Thursday at 1 o'clock. 

It was seen that MPs were ignoring important bills like 'Information Technology and Cyber Security'. The number of MPs of Congress-UML, the main party of the alliance, is 164, but 69 MPs could not come together to take a decision on the bill even if other parties were also counted.

The number of Congress and UML in the House of Representatives is almost two-thirds. 88 from Congress (Mohan Basnet suspended), 78 from UML (Top Bahadur Rayamazhi suspended) are 164 MPs who can go to Parliament. There are 7 MPs from JSP and 4 MPs from LOSPA in the government. When the bill is presented to the parliament for decision, it is the responsibility of the ruling parties to reach the quorum. When the government's proposal is presented for decision, the parliamentarians of the ruling party have to pass it by a majority.

Opposition Maoists, United Socialists, JSPA are participating in the parliamentary process, while RSVP and RPP have been boycotting the parliament meeting since June 30. Mahesh Bertaula, the chief whip of the UML, which is leading the government, and Shyam Kumar Ghimire, the chief whip of the Congress, the largest party in the parliament, say that they are affected by the activities of their MPs. 

UML chief whip Bertaula said that parliamentary dignity has decreased due to lack of discipline by MPs. On behalf of the parliamentary party, we have repeatedly sent messages asking you to stay till the end of the meeting. There are parliamentarians who come to parliament, attend, do not sit till the end, consider parliamentary affairs as important, but become a parliamentarian, he says, "There is a disease among leaders who are understood, who are called seniors, and who have been parliamentarians many times. We have taken this seriously." There is a sad trend of senior leaders in UML and Congress not staying till the end of the meeting. A question has arisen as to why he should become an MP if he does not pay attention to parliamentary work. If you are not interested in legislative work, if you are not interested in participating in daily business, then why do you become an MP?

Bertaula says that parliamentarians come to meetings, attend and leave with salary and allowances. He thinks that parliamentary dignity is violated if he does not sit for even 10 minutes in the Parliament meeting. It has been said that two-thirds of the government, but when the bill is presented for decision, not even one-fourth of the MPs are present in the parliament, we have to face this question. However, MPs who are said to be big leaders do not sit in the meeting, they do not come out even after asking why, they behave as if they are asking,'' he says.

He said that the matter of not reaching the quorum in the parliament will be seriously raised in the parliamentary party. Mentioning that there is no record of some top MPs sitting in the House of Representatives from the beginning to the end, Bertaula said, 'Prime Minister and party leaders are also telling you to pay attention to parliamentary affairs.' "Members of parliament attend, ensure allowances, some from outside and some sit in a meeting for a short time and get on their way," he said. Some of them went from outside. The MP could not be prosecuted for not sitting in the meeting. Morality should be understood by everyone.'

Ghimire admits that most of the MPs who are absent from the House of Representatives meeting are from the Congress.  'It is seen that the Congress MPs are less present in recent times, it is in the Congress that there are the most fights and quarrels. Ghimire said that the issue of MP's absence in Parliament will be seriously discussed in the working committee of the parliamentary party. 

Maoist MP Madhav Prasad Sapkota alleged that the purpose of the Congress and UML alliance is not to move forward by running the Parliament effectively. "The fact that two-thirds of the government shows its pride in the parliament, but the fact that the bill is prevented from being passed without reaching 69 MPs, confirms the priority of the two parties towards the parliament and the law," he said, "There have been many times when the parliament has been adjourned without reaching a quorum even after the formation of the two-thirds government. What this conveys is that legislative work and making the parliament dignified is not the priority of this coalition, they are busy with other business."