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| Kathmandu Wednesday March 27, 2002 Chaitra 14, 2058. |
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Opposition boycott House,call for
better handling of emergency
Post Report
KATHMANDU, March 26:The entire opposition
boycotted the parliamentary proceedings Tuesday afternoon drawing the government’s
attention on the country’s worsening security scenario, and forcing Speaker of the
House of Representatives Taranath Ranabhat to adjourn the House till Wednesday morning.
Whip of the main opposition CPN-UML Rajendra
Pande flayed the governement for failing to maintain law and order situation in the
country and strongly demanded that the government issue directives to manage the state of
emergency in accordance with the Article 115 (7) of the Constitution.
"The government should be able to ensure
law and order situation. It has also failed to live up to its promise (to, among others,
issue the order and better handle the emergency situation during the crucial voting to
ratify emergency last month). So we are boycotting the House until the government does
something," Pande said. "Where is the Home Minister? He had better assure and
satisfy the House."
What followed thereafter was the scene, which
was more like a reminder of the previous session: All the UML lawmakers present in the
House stood up and staged a walk out. Lawmakers of the other opposition parties too
maintained a conspicuous silence thereafter, indicating their support to the main
opposition UML.
The boycott came an hour after the lawmakers of
the National People’s Front (NPF) boycotted the House proceedings for the second
straight day demanding that the government informed the House about the killing of at
least three of its workers in Baglung by security forces.
Lawmaker Pari Thapa of the smaller left party
lambasted the government for failing to maintain law and order situation in the country
and demanded that the government informed the House about the killings of three of its
party workers in Baglung.
Expressing grave concern on the deteriorating
law and order situation in the country as well as in the capital city ahead of a
five-day-long nationwide shut down called by the Maoist party, Pradip Nepal and Subas
Nemwang of the main opposition CPN-UML also demanded that the Prime Minister informed the
House.
Nemwang demanded that the government probe
recent incidents in Ilam and Jhapa where at least 18 village development committee (VDC)
offices were set on fire by unidentified persons earlier this week.
"This morning rebels hurled a petrol bomb
at the vehicle that remained parked inside the resident premises of our comrade Bharat
Mohan Adhikari. Where is security and where is the government?" Nemwang said.
"Isn’t the attack against Bharat Mohan Adhikary also an attack against Tara Nath
Ranabhat?"
Pashupati Shamsher JB Rana of the Rastriya
Prajantantra Party (RPP), Hridesh Tripathi of the Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP), Narayan
Man Bijukchhe and Lila Mani Pokharel of the United People’s Front (UPF) also drew the
government’s attention on the security situation.
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