Congress President Gagan Thapa said, ”If the opposition cannot play its role properly in a democracy, the government cannot be held accountable and deliver results. The opposition's job is to question, its job is to warn, and to protest and resist when necessary.”
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The leader of the main opposition party, Congress, Gagan Thapa, has said that the Constitutional Council is a state. He said that the Constitution has ensured the place of the executive, legislature and judiciary as well as the opposition in the Constitutional Council, so the Constitutional Council is the overall form of the state. At a program organized in Kathmandu on Friday, President Thapa said that the government is trying to change the structure of the Constitutional Council by bringing an ordinance related to it. President Thapa also said that he would question the government's work of trying to do anything just because it has a majority in the parliament. 'The government has brought an ordinance - related to the Constitutional Council. Who will be in that Constitutional Council? There will be a Prime Minister, a Speaker of the House of Representatives, a Deputy Speaker. The government is the executive, but the Constitutional Council is the state,' Thapa said. 'The previous government also made that mess to change the structure of the Constitutional Council. This is a government that is doing something new. How is it thinking? As I said before, 'rule by law', I have the right to bring laws, I change them, I knock them down, I knock them down.'
Thapa said that the government will bring laws through ordinances and raise problems in the Constitutional Council. 'I am worried that the way things are being done, it is not taking us to the right place. I like it, I will make laws, I don't like it, I won't make laws, I do it,' Thapa said about the government's work.
Speaker Thapa has also criticized the government for using dozers in squatter settlements for the past few days. He said that the real squatters should be identified and settled. 'While we are having discussions today, dozers are being used in many settlements in Kathmandu. Among the people living on the banks of the river, there are people who have owned houses and land in many places by deceiving the state. The law has made arrangements to identify them, punish them, and remove them from there. The government has been given the responsibility and authority for this. However, our constitution and law have also said that arrangements should be made for many people living there who are not allowed to live on the banks of the river but they should be allowed to live somewhere. The government has also been given the responsibility and authority,' said President Thapa, 'that is to remove them, that is to evacuate them. But, when the government thinks within the scope of the rule of law, at that time it cannot treat its citizens like war criminals. It cannot dare to do so. That is the difference.'
President Thapa said that the Congress, as the opposition party, will do its job. Thapa said that the RSP has been given a mandate to run the government for 5 years and that there is public opinion for him to remain in the opposition. 'We want them to fulfill the mandate they have received in a proper manner. We are also with them. We believe that they should be able to work with this mandate without any obstacles. This is also our belief. However, this same election has also given a mandate to the Congress Party. It has been given a mandate to play the role of the opposition at the federal level for 5 years. The opposition also has its own responsibility,' Thapa said, 'If the opposition cannot play its role properly in a democracy, the government cannot achieve results with accountability. The job of the opposition is to question, its job is to warn, to protest and resist when necessary. It is also a job to suggest alternatives. Therefore, for 5 years, we also have to work according to our mandate. We ask questions in a civilized and humble manner. We also warn, we also suggest alternatives, but we also request the government not to consider our humility as weakness.'
Congress President Thapa said that it should not be considered weak by saying that it will remain in the opposition and be humble. 'We are humble, but not weak. We are firm. We are cooperative. We do not come to create trouble everywhere. But, we are equally clear that our voice should be heard, that legitimate voices should be heard,' President Thapa said. Stating that the government is a servant of the law, Thapa suggested that it should be run under the law.
