Kathmandu, September 22

Former president Dr Ram Baran Yadav today took serious exception to the Education Bill (ninth amendment) passed recently by the Parliament and criticised the ever-bulging size of the Cabinet

Addressing an interaction organised by Sushil Koirala Memorial Foundation here in Kathmandu, Yadav said an entire generation would collapse if the ‘wrong’ decisions were not corrected.

The Parliament on Tuesday had passed the controversial bill, which provides for fulfilment of 60 per cent teaching posts in community schools through internal examinations and the remaining 40 per cent positions through open competition.

“I wonder how that bill got passed from the House,” said Dr Yadav. He also expressed his reservation over ‘politicisation’ of state organs and slammed the government for expanding the Cabinet repeatedly.

“Why does this government not even hesitate to cross the limit while expanding the Cabinet,” added Yadav. He said democracy could only be strengthened if all three state organs — legislature, executive and judiciary — respected one another’s roles.

Dr Yadav alleged that the executive and political parties politicised state organs such as the judiciary and state bodies, including government universities and health institutions, by making appointments there for personal and partisan interests.

Yadav was of the view that political parties gave election tickets to some wrong people who were spreading ‘dozer terror’ in the hills and ‘crusher terror’ in the Tarai. He-called on political parties to end their differences on national agendas.

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