KATHMANDU: Victims of loan sharking, seeking action against usurers, protested on Friday, demanding the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha. Expressing frustration over police intervention preventing the rally from circumnavigating Ratnapark, the victims insisted on the Home Minister’s resignation. Earlier, the police had barred the protesters from advancing beyond the […]
KATHMANDU: The All Nepal National Free Student Union (ANNFSU), affiliated with CPN-UML, is calling for the resignation of Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala. During a demonstration in Kathmandu, ANNFSU members set fire to an effigy of Minister Jwala in front of Tri-Chandra Campus, Ghantaghar, Kathmandu. This demand follows the government’s establishment of a […]
KATHMANDU, April 18: Loan sharking victims continued with their protest demanding the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha.
BUTWAL, Aug 22: After Lumbini Province Assembly Secretariat refused to take action against two lawmakers --- Ajaya Shahi and Bimala Kumari Khatri Oli --- as per its demand, the main opposition in the province, CPN-UML has demanded that Speaker Purna Bahadur Gharti step down from his position immediately.
While objecting to the decision made by the provincial assembly secretariat, the UML insisted that both Shahi and Khatri attended the parliamentary meeting in their capacity as the lawmaker of the party on May 2, June 2 and June 13.
Writing to the UML, the secretariat, earlier on Sunday, stated that the action taken against Ajaya Shahi and Bimala Khatri Oli could not be endorsed as it lacked strong ground for relieving them.
The UML had sent a letter to the secretariat asking Speaker Purna Bahadur Gharti to ‘sack’ Shahi and Khatri citing the party had taken action against them for breaching party whip.
The UML, which has recently lost the command of the provincial government, also obstructed House meetings for two consecutive days demanding Speaker Gharti relive two members immediately.
In its response to the UML, the Province Assembly Secretariat stated that they [Shahi and Khatri] could not be taken any action by the UML as they said that they no longer belong to the UML.
Issuing a press statement shortly after the Provincial Secretariat’s decision, the chief whip of UML in the province, Bhumishowr Dhakal said that the ‘verdict’ issued by Speaker Gharti goes against the spirit of rule of law and parliamentary norms.
"As the prevailing law, facts, parliamentary values and norms do not allow such a jurisdiction to the Speaker, he should remain in office on moral grounds,” read the statement.
.jpeg)
