Minister Rijal, also the government spokesperson, took help of social networking site Facebook to clarify the confusion following rumours that he owns a PR of United States of America.

“I am a Nepali citizen, a permanent resident of Nepal. I don’t have any PR permits of any foreign country,” Rijal wrote in his Facebook wall, “I have made it clear as I feel there have been efforts to create confusion regarding the subject.”

At the meeting of the State Affairs Committee, the lawmakers had drawn the attention of Minister for General Administration, Lal Babu Pandit, saying that some of the incumbent Cabinet ministers had US Green Card and Canadian PR.

Minister Pandit had hinted that the ministers had created obstruction in the fourth amendment of the Civil Service Act, 2049.