RSP MPs themselves started criticizing the government

Ruling party lawmakers have begun raising their voices in House of Representatives meetings and parliamentary committees regarding the working style of the Prime Minister and ministers, the government's actions, and the problems of the people.

Ashad 31, 2083

Jaya Singh Mahara

RSP MPs themselves started criticizing the government

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As the nearly two-thirds powerful Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) government progresses in three and a half months, the RSS MPs themselves have started criticizing the government, raising questions about Prime Minister Balendra Shah and his ministers. The ruling party MPs have started raising their voices in the House of Representatives and parliamentary committees on the working style of the Prime Minister and ministers, the government's steps, and the problems of the people.

While only the opposition MPs were commenting and questioning in the initial days, as the government crossed 100 days, the ruling party MPs have also started criticizing the government. The RSS MPs have questioned the Prime Minister and ministers on issues such as farmers not being able to get rice, atrocities against squatters, vehicles being driven under government protection at the gates of the media asking questions, Ganesh Nepali self-immolating due to the state's behavior, Gen-G leaders Majid Ansari and others being arrested, taxes being imposed on goods brought from India by residents of border areas, an increase in accidents on the Karnali Highway due to the government's lack of interest, and the introduction of laws to drastically increase traffic fines. Some RSP MPs have also started criticizing the government on social media and expressing their dissatisfaction. 

RSP MP Jagdish Kharel, elected from Dolakha, said in Parliament that the government and the party are trying to use him as an 'A' man, saying, 'This government will not survive if only the dignity of the Prime Minister is preserved. Our (MPs) dignity must also be preserved. Is the role of MPs here only to make noise? We are not satisfied with this and the citizens will not be satisfied either.'

A large number of RSP MPs are also questioning the government for not getting fertilizer to the farmers of the country until the start of paddy cultivation. Karishma Katharia has demanded that the government apologize to the farmers for failing to provide fertilizer on time. 'Why doesn't the government's heart ache when it hears the pain of farmers who cry out that they need fertilizer before Citamol even when there is a fever?' Katharia said. 

MP Katharia said that the government is lying that there is fertilizer. ‘The government says there is manure in the warehouse, but farmers ask, why is that manure not in the fields? Isn’t this like trading in the tears of farmers?’, she asked, ‘The government should immediately apologize to the food-giving farmers, tell the truth and present alternatives and relief.’

The RSP MPs have also questioned the unwanted activities taking place under the auspices of the government. They also criticized the issue of creating obstruction by parking vehicles at the gates of the offices of Kantipur Media Group, Online News and Himalayan TV in Kathmandu on Monday. RSP Whip Prakash Chandra Pariyar had questioned the government. In Tuesday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, Whip Pariyar warned that the Nepali press, which was not intimidated when the then King Gyanendra Shah imposed martial law and sent soldiers carrying guns into the newsroom, would not be intimidated by two or four vehicles on the road. ‘We should not witness any kind of tragedy and chaos on the press when someone’s interests clash just because we are in power,’ he had also called on other party MPs to speak. While other RSP MPs remained silent on the issue, Whip Pariyar raised the question.

RSP MPs have been spending their time criticizing previous governments every day, saying that nothing has happened in the last 35 years. While they were arguing that it is impossible to make big changes in the first 100 days of the government, and that the current government is making improvements because there were only problems in the past, MP Sushant Vaidik said that the government cannot escape by pointing to the past. While most RSP MPs were making statements to confirm that the self-immolation victims, including Ganesh Nepali, have 'mental problems', Vaidik said that the state should look at it differently. 

'This incident cannot be avoided as just personal weakness, the state is not a lifeless structure, it is a living entity,' Vaidik said, 'When a citizen feels unheard when communicating with the state, when he experiences humiliation instead of respect when he goes to get a service, when he sees the doors of opportunity closing, it is not just the pain of an individual, but a sign of weakness in the structure of the nation.' 

He made it clear that politics cannot be done by blaming history. He said, ‘The future cannot be secured by blaming history. We have all failed in this. The state has failed. Past weaknesses cannot be an excuse for my government. Today’s responsibility belongs to today. A healthy nation does not hide its wounds, it identifies them, treats them and makes itself stronger.’

RSP MPs themselves started criticizing the government

The RSP MP has also strongly criticized Home Minister Sudhan Gurung for imposing taxes on goods brought from India by locals in the border area and for allowing smugglers to move freely while the security forces are harassing them. He has raised questions saying that Home Minister Gurung’s secretariat has not tried to listen to the complaints of the general public. "When people contact the Home Ministry, which is responsible for maintaining peace and security of the people and the country, to express their problems, there are constant complaints that the Home Minister's personal secretary does not respond or pick up the phone," said MP Afsana Banu. "The Home Minister's personal secretariat appears to be irresponsible in listening to citizens' complaints."

Questioning the Home Minister himself, MP Ramesh Prasarai demanded a ruling from the Speaker to have Minister Gurung appear in Parliament and respond to the government's failure to pay attention to the road accident. "Recently, there was an accident on the Karnali Highway. Did the government mobilize all its capacity for rescue or not? Is it true that people were stuck on a cliff and begged for help and that there was negligence in the rescue, as the opposition claims?" What are the long-term plans of the government to prevent such accidents from happening again on the Karnali Highway in the future?,’ said MP Prasain, ‘The Home Minister must stand on this rostrum and answer.’

MP Buddhi Prasad Pant expressed his anger saying that MPs raise people’s questions in Parliament but the government does not listen. He said, ‘We, the people’s representatives, have not been able to realize that the issues raised by the people’s representatives in the House have reached beyond the four walls of this House.’ He objected that citizens from the border area with India are being seized when they bring goods worth 2-4 thousand, but the state bodies are acting as if they do not see smugglers. ‘General public are being seized when they bring goods worth 1-2 thousand, but smugglers are smuggling goods including drugs through the main border crossings. 

The issue of police administration that is not seen even after going back and forth has come up on the public media after locals told the Home Minister himself a few days ago, but despite that, the people are watching the silence of the Home Minister and the Home Ministry with great interest,' he expressed dissatisfaction with the government's working style.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) MP Kharel had taken special time in the parliament and raised questions about irregularities in the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure, which is being handled by Sunil Lamsal. 'A girl from Dolkha tells me that I lost my job because I did not have my own people in the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure. I went to ask, met the secretary, the secretary's answer is that what comes to a people's representative is that you should go to the authority, go to the court. The secretary does not need to teach me to go to the authority and the court,' Kharel said, 'If the wife of the joint secretary gets a job because she has relatives in the ministry and if someone else loses their job because there is no one, where is good governance? When will we prepare good governance?’

MP Kamal Subedi had demanded from the government to end the fraud on labor fees, wages, and insurance against Nepali citizens going for foreign employment. ‘The Ministry of Labor should form a special task force to solve the problem of foreign employment and solve the problem so that these issues do not have to be raised in the House,’ he said. 

On July 24, MP Som Sharma had raised questions about the government’s proposed increase in traffic fines. He expressed dissatisfaction saying that the government had proposed traffic fines ranging from thousands to lakhs without considering the country’s economic situation. ‘We are firm in favor of traffic discipline and road safety, but considering our current economic reality and the income level of the common citizen, the proposed rate of fines seems very uncomfortable,’ Sharma said, ‘Penalties and fines should be a means of reform, not a burden. In such a situation, increasing the rate of fines alone will have a more negative impact on the standard of living of the citizens. Therefore, I believe that the government will seriously reconsider the decision to increase the fine, taking into account the capabilities and practical aspects of the common citizen, before implementing it.'

MP Smriti Century said that the government should pay attention to the ongoing protest at Maitighar demanding a solution to the problem of Dalit community not being able to rent a room in Kathmandu. 'Is the government room empty?' The banner of Maitighar Mandal is embarrassing this state and society. If it is difficult for a Dalit to get a room in a city that is said to be educated and civilized, when will they become people in this society?,' she said. 'The Home Minister visited Maitighar Mandal, but both the doors of Singha Durbar and consciousness should be opened to break the web of caste discrimination.'

MP Yagya Mani Neupane questioned in Parliament that the plan he recommended was not included in the budget for the coming fiscal year brought by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) government. 'The water from Lavakhola has stopped, the people of Miklajung have not been able to drink drinking water from Lavakhola,' he said. 'I had recommended the plan, but it was not included in the budget. Electricity and drinking water have reached the cities, but the Ministry of Drinking Water is not there, this matter has not been heard.'

 MP Shristi Bhattarai said that looting on the highway in the name of parking has not stopped. She expressed her anger that illegal money is being collected from truck drivers by setting up stalls on the highway, but the government has not stopped it. She said that laws were prepared in rooms in Kathmandu and Biratnagar, but no attention was paid to its implementation.

RSVP MPs have started speaking out about the government's decisions and steps not only in the House of Representatives meeting but also on parliamentary committees and social media. RSVP MP Sulabh Kharel criticized the police's use of force on Gen-G leader Majid Ansari, who had reached Kirtipur to understand the situation of squatters, in the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee meeting on Monday, and questioned the Home Minister and the Prime Minister.

He said that the use of force and arrest was not justified when questioning the government. 'Some time ago, a policeman asked my party president what his last wish was. I never saw the police's words in it, I saw the faces of the then government, the then Prime Minister and the then Home Minister in it,' Kharel said, 'What if the people see the faces of the current Home Minister and Prime Minister there while telling the protesters or the opposition or everyone living in the society not to engage in politics in the words of the police? Just like I saw it yesterday.' He warned that the government should not lose its way. In the

committee meeting, MP Madhu Chaulagain raised a question about the fact that food has been stopped for the squatters kept in the holding center since Asad 22. He demanded that the minister come to the committee and answer about the management being done regarding the squatters. He said that the government should be told that the human rights of the squatters have been violated. 'Human rights have been violated here, in the place where the squatters are kept. They have not been given food since Asad 22. I have a video. I also have a video of children and elderly people crying in the holding center in Banepa. The government is not exempt from this,' he said.

RSP whip Krantishikha Dhital had questioned the government over the management of squatters on social media. ‘The tears of the squatters flowing on the streets today should warm us all,’ she wrote, ‘The management of the squatters was extremely necessary, but was it done according to our promise? Is this what a guardian state should be like? This work should have been carried out with the sensitivity, planning, and responsibility that should have been done. It only exposed the weakness and incompetence of the state as a whole.’

RSP MPs had criticized Agriculture Minister Geeta Chaudhary in Parliament for not paying enough attention to the suffering of farmers due to lack of fertilizer. ‘There is a rush for planting in Kapilvastu. "Farmers in the district, which has the largest agricultural land area of ​​84,000 hectares in the country, are forced to suffer from a shortage of fertilizers and seeds this year as well," said MP Mohanlal Acharya. "Although the Agriculture Minister was made aware of this issue from the very beginning, there has been no improvement as expected." While Acharya said that the quota determination was a matter of the central government, provincial government and local level officials blaming each other, MP Buddhi Narayan Shrestha also expressed dissatisfaction over the central government's failure to coordinate to provide fertilizers to farmers during the farming season.

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