RPP, NSP disrupt House for 6th day

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Aug. 27: Lawmakers from Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and Nepal Sadbhawana Party (NSP) today again disrupted the proceedings of the House of Representatives for the 6th day demanding the ceiling on the property together with the government’s decision to freeze land sales and its transactions across the country.

Speaker Taranath Ranabhat today announced the adjournment of the House till 1P.M.Wednesday, after the protesting RPP and NSP MPs did not comply with his repeated requests to take their respective seats for the smooth running of the House.

The agitating MPs went to the well shouting slogans demanding the ceiling on the property.

Before resorting to shouting slogans, Hridayash Tripathi of NSP claimed that the government’s proposed land reform was incomplete and lame.

Tripathi said that the government should first solve the problem of the citizenship certificates then implement its land reform package.

He said that about 4.5 million people of the Terai have been deprived of the citizenship certificates.

Mushahar, Chamars, Dushadh and Sarki among others form the major chunk of the Terai population who are poor and landless, he said.

"But how can they get land since they are deprived of the citizenship papers?" the NSP MP said.

He also claimed that the government had not yet distributed the land that was confiscated during the land reform programme launched in 2021 B.S.

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