The behavior of MPs, whether it is during monitoring and inspection of various bodies after decisions are made by the parliamentary committee or in the constituency, has started to be criticized. MPs who went for monitoring from the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives have asked for documents of cases under investigation at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, and the Finance Committee's monitoring team has been arguing at the international airport. The behavior of MPs during monitoring of various bodies in the constituency has raised questions about their role. Experts on parliamentary etiquette say that such disputes arise when MPs who want to go viral on social media and do not understand their official responsibilities go for monitoring.

A video clip of an MP reprimanding an employee is viral on social media. That scene is from inside the Tribhuvan International Airport. Last Monday, Jagdish Kharel, a member of the Finance Committee of the Parliament and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) MP elected from Dolakha, and Sagar Bhusal, an MP elected from Parbat, had reached the airport. They are complaining that those who come to pick up and drop off relatives at the airport have to pay between Rs 50 and Rs 100 to stay for a while, and they confront Charu Shrestha, the CEO of the airport's terminal management company, AEMS Services.

MP Kharel asks Shrestha who gave him the authority to charge for staying in a certain area of ​​the airport. 'Who gave you the authority? You pay for staying, man,' says Kharel, 'It came in the approval. It came from the finance committee. People inside will be charged for staying.' MP Kharel and Bhusal had taken a camera person with them. CEO Shrestha asks them to turn off the camera. She tells the MPs, 'We have an agreement with TIA. It is difficult to control the number of people here. We charge Rs 50 and Rs 100. We allow people above 65 years of age, below 5 years of age and those with disabilities to stay for free.'

MP Kharel is shocked, saying, 'Did you do whatever you wanted?' MP Bhusal says that there have been complaints that an old man who came to pick up his son from Japan had to pay for accommodation and that this has been the case even when the new government came to power. The MPs warn that the activities there will be published in the media. When Shrestha asks him to speak calmly, MP Kharel gets angry and walks out, saying that he will raise the question in Parliament.

Meanwhile, IMS Services has taken a 30-year lease for the management of the Tribhuvan International Airport terminal. It is operating on a 'boot model'. IMS Group, which operates in sectors including banking, insurance, education and real estate, is the national distributor of Samsung smartphones and Korean luxury brand (Ssangyong Motors).

CEO Shrestha said that the MPs came and tried to talk directly and did not understand how the management is done. 'What happens in the management of the airport terminal? What kind of involvement does each person have?' She said. She said that the MPs did not understand that allowing anyone to come to that area would cause problems in management. 'They did not understand what would happen if we keep it open. Taxis, hotel owners and other unrelated people also come. If there is a crowd there, there is a problem of how to control it and how to take the passengers to the right place,' she said. 'We also have to help the Gaushala and the police stationed here. They did not even try to understand the situation of crowding here. They said show us the agreement.'

Shrestha said that even though it came from the Finance Committee, only two MPs Kharel and Bhusal came to her room and did not show the committee's letter for monitoring. 'Even the committee's letter was not shown. What is in the public video is what happened,' she added.

Finance Committee Chairman Krishnahari Budhathoki refused to comment on the matter. He asked to talk to Committee Secretary Laxman Aryal about the regulation. Committee Secretary Aryal said, 'We went together to monitor the immigration service flow and customs at Tribhuvan International Airport. The work of writing the report is underway.' Secretary Aryal defended the incident, saying that only the video portion of the dispute between the MP and CEO Shrestha was brought to the fore, but the video of the cordial conversation that took place there was hidden.

Although Secretary Aryal said that the decision to monitor the international airport had already been made, the decision has not been made public on the committee's website.

Less than a week after the Finance Committee MPs returned from the standoff, a team led by the International Relations and Tourism Committee Chairman reached the airport on Thursday to monitor and inspect it.

This was not the first incident where the MPs had come to blows. Earlier, a controversial incident had come to light after a group of MPs from the State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the House of Representatives went to the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, Itahari office and tried to see the details of the files under investigation. On Asad 5, a group of 4 MPs from the State Affairs Committee had insisted on seeing the files under investigation at the CIAA in Itahari. Even when Yagya Puri, the head of the CIAA Itahari office, said that the details of the investigation process would remain confidential under the law, RSVP MP Yagya Mani Neupane had insisted that they must be shown.

The meeting of the State Affairs Committee on 28 Jestha had decided to send a team to monitor the Itahari office of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority. But the team did not write down what files they would go to and what kind of monitoring they would do. Yagyamani Neupane and Gazla Shamim Mikrani of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bishnumaya BK of the UML, and Yubaraj Dulal of the NCP had reached the Itahari office to monitor the Commission.

MP Neupane had insisted to the office chief that they should be allowed to see the files of the complaints under investigation. ‘If confidentiality were really violated, it does not mean that it would not be violated by the employees,’ he had said. ‘If all the employees involved in it, from the office assistant to the boss of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, are there any guarantees that confidentiality will be maintained? Are the MPs elected by the people running the country in this way?’ Looking at the issues that really need to be raised in corruption, if it is said that confidentiality will be violated, the question is whether it will be accountable to the citizens and the state.’

Office Chief Puri had said, ‘The fact that the investigation is ongoing or the subject of the investigation remains confidential. Everything from the names of the informants to the information remains confidential. The fact that which office has written what answer also remains confidential. We can bring the file and show you guys, the matter written in our ‘Code of Conduct’, we may not be able to do that now, sorry.’ NCP MP and committee member Yubaraj Dulal said that he wanted to see which files of big people are stuck in the CIAA and how long they have not progressed, and he was of the opinion that the files should be shown. ‘How do we know if a complaint has been filed against a big person in this country and it is pending?’, he had asked, ‘How do we know if a complaint has been filed against a person with access and the case is pending? Do we only know the number or do we also know the nature?’

Stating that the law prohibits the file under investigation from being viewed by anyone other than the person concerned, Office Chief Puri had warned that MP Neupane would write in the report that he refused to show the file. But even after 15 days of monitoring, this monitoring group has not submitted its report to the committee.

Not only from the parliamentary committee, but also from the constituency, MPs have been threatening to monitor in this way. One example of this is the behavior of MP Prakash Gautam, elected from Makawanpur-1, at Hetauda Hospital.

MP Gautam, who reached Hetauda Hospital in the second week of Ashad, had set a deadline for bringing the hospital equipment into operation. After reaching the new ward of the NICU, MP Gautam instructed, ‘Start it in 2 weeks, if you cannot start it even in 2 weeks, then you will have to take steps accordingly. Because you have to get the service facilities. I will come back after 2 weeks and manage it accordingly. If not, we will talk, it is not possible to just build a building and add equipment.’

He warned that he would move forward if the hospital management committee was not ready to bring the hospital equipment into operation and provide additional services. ‘If you cannot be serious, we will be serious,’ he said.

Bhimsagar Guragai, Registrar of the Madan Bhandari Institute of Health Sciences, said that the MP’s monitoring of the hospital has helped to speed up the work. But the MP complained about the deadline for operating the NICU without understanding the reality of human resources and technical issues. ‘When an elected MP comes, we also get motivated. But the NICU equipment arrived 2 days ago. The installation has been done but the payment has not been made. The manpower is not ready, why haven’t we started it?’ Guragain said, ‘His words have put pressure on us, but we are still taking it positively and working.’ Guragain informed that even though the MP set a deadline for operating, Hetauda Hospital has decided to open an advertisement for staff nurses and conduct an exam on 2nd Shrawan. MP Gautam, on the other hand, could not talk as he is currently on a visit to Singapore.

Former Secretary of the National Assembly Rajendra Phuyal says that such disputes arise when parliamentary committees and MPs do not understand and try to understand what is and is not their rights. 'They are not clear about what is the jurisdiction of MPs. They should understand whether their work is legislative or executive. They should understand that monitoring is done by the executive and oversight agencies are fundamentally different,' Phuyal said, 'MPs are not to reprimand. What is the objective situation at the basic level of planning, service delivery and law implementation? What problems are service recipients facing? What is the real problem? They should identify and guide the government to solve them. Without knowing this, I will reach the level of reprimanding.'

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) whip Prakash Chandra Pariyar said that he is urging MPs to maintain their dignity and act according to their mandate while conducting monitoring. 'Whether it is parliamentary monitoring or going to the constituency, we ask the MPs to keep the essence, dignity, weight and mandate of the parliamentary system at the center. We are asking them to take care of what our scope of role is and how to coordinate,' Pariyar said, 'We ask the MPs to present themselves with decency and rationality when they go to government bodies. We are asking them to pay attention to respecting each other and work according to their scope. Anger arises, but one should understand what the limits of the position are.'