CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli on Friday remarked that Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s activities and the statements he has issued during his ongoing India visit were disgraceful.

Talking to journalists at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) before heading to Thailand for a regular health check-up today, the opposition leader said, “PM Deuba raised the issue of constitution’s acceptability out of context from the foreign land. Who was he trying to please by such remarks?”

“He is the Prime Minister, he took the oath of office and secrecy from the same constitution, he was elected the Prime Minister under the same constitution,” he said. “He raised the issue of constitution’s acceptability in a completely out of context,” Oli added.

Leader Oli, who is also a former Prime Minister, claimed that PM Deuba also made a mockery of the recent decision made by lawmakers of Nepal regarding the constitution amendment from the foreign country.

During a joint press conference on Thursday, PM Deuba told his Indian counterpart that efforts to amend the constitution is underway and will try to amend the constitution.

Earlier on Monday, the much-awaited constitution amendment bill, brought to address key demands of the agitating Madhes-centric parties, failed to muster the required two-thirds majority in the Legislature-Parliament.

Out of 553 lawmakers, who were present in the Parliament, 347 lawmakers voted in favour of the bill, 48 short of the two-third majority required to pass the bill. There are 592 members in the House.

Meanwhile, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has taken exception to the remarks made by PM Deuba during his Delhi visit.