RPP parliamentary party leader Gyan Bahadur Shahi said, ”Expressions without facts may be political speeches, but they cannot be the basis for running the state. A nation cannot run on the basis of assumptions.”
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There has been a demand that Prime Minister Balendra Shah's statements regarding the border dispute between Nepal and India be presented to the parliament if they are true, or removed from the parliament's record if they are not.
In Monday's meeting of the House of Representatives, RPP parliamentary party leader Gyan Bahadur Shahi objected to the Prime Minister's statement. 'If the government has any basis for claiming that Nepal has violated India's border, I appeal to it to present it to the parliament.' If not, the government should avoid statements that mislead the people,' Shahi demanded. 'I would like to appeal to remove the Prime Minister's words spoken without facts from the parliament's record. If there is evidence, let us present it, otherwise, I demand that it be removed from the parliament's record.'
Although there is freedom of expression in a democracy, Shahi said that the government leadership should be careful when making statements. 'The statements of the person leading the government should also be responsible.' There is a difference between the gossip of a tea shop and the expression of the parliament,' he said, 'The flow of what an ordinary citizen says and what the Prime Minister of the country says is different. When the Prime Minister makes a claim, the country considers it as the government's opinion. The international community takes it as an official view and accepts it as truth.'
Shahi said that the Prime Minister's expression should be based on facts, evidence and reality. 'Expression without facts can be a political speech, but it cannot be the basis for running the state. A nation cannot run on the basis of assumptions,' he said.
Prime Minister Shah had said in the House of Representatives meeting on Sunday that efforts were being made to resolve the Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura disputes diplomatically. But in the process, he had said, 'You might be surprised to learn that I too, after becoming Prime Minister, found out that not only has India encroached on Nepal's land, Nepal has also encroached on a lot of India's land.'
Opposition parties are disrupting the House of Representatives meeting over Prime Minister Shah's statement.
