Hetauda, February 8:

Three members of the parliament had already withdrawn a part of the money from MPs’

development fund in Makwanpur before the Supreme Court decided not to dole out money to MPs from the fund on Wednesday.

MPs Krishna Prasad Dahal had withdrawn Rs 509,000, Kumari Moktan has withdrawn Rs 50,000 and Bir Bahadur Lama has withdrawn Rs 25,000 from the fund on February 1, accountant at the Hetauda DDC Bhuwan Prasad Kafle said.

Earlier, after the decision to dole out money to MPs drew controversy, the seven parties had recently decided not to release the amount to MPs before the CA polls.

The government had released Rs 3.6 million for the fund in Makwanpur in two installments. With six MPs in the parliament from Makwanpur, the fund in the district development committee would have received Rs 6 million if the decision to provide Rs 1 million to each parliamentarian were not scrapped by the SC.