Miscellaneous
No business: House postponed by week
While more than a hundred new Acts have to be formulated to implement the new constitution, the Legislature-Parliament has been without business, prompting the Parliament Secretariat to postpone the meeting by a week.Binod Ghimire
While more than a hundred new Acts have to be formulated to implement the new constitution, the Legislature-Parliament has been without business, prompting the Parliament Secretariat to postpone the meeting by a week.
The House meeting convened on Monday after a week only had ‘zero hour’ and ‘special hour’. It is the duty of the government to provide business to Parliament. The new government formed a week ago is yet to decide on it.
The constitution mentions that provisions of positive discrimination for the empowerment of marginalised communities, some provisions of right to justice, right to property, free education up to the secondary level and special scholarships for students from marginalised communities in higher education, among others, will be implemented as per new laws.
The new government of Pushpa Kamal Dahal has yet to decide whether to proceed with the bills tabled by the earlier government. “It’s natural for the House to be without business as it’s hardly a week since the new government was formed,” said Bharat Raj Gautam, spokesperson for the Parliament Secretariat.
“We are still in the process of giving full shape to the Cabinet,” said Ramesh Malla, personal secretary to the PM. “The House will have ample business once it resumes next week.”
The next meeting has been scheduled for August 14. The government says that implementation of the Constitution of Nepal is its primary agenda, which is not possible without the new laws.
‘In no hurry to join government’
KATHMANDU: Leaders of the regional parties who supported Dahal in the PM election have said they would not join the government in haste.
Addressing Parliament on Monday, leaders of the Madhes-based parties said they would think of joining the Cabinet only after implementation of the three-point agreement signed with the ruling parties that includes constitutional amendment for redrawing the boundaries of the federal states.
“We won’t trade our agenda with ministerial positions,” said Sarbendra Nath Shukla, general secretary of the Tarai Madhes Loktantrik Party. (PR)