Want Shivpuri issue investigated

Kathmandu, December 21:

CPN-Maoist lawmaker Lokendra Bista today warned of disrupting parliamentary business if the seven-party alliance failed to arrive at a consensus by Sunday.

“We will not allow the functioning of the parliament if the seven parties do not reach a consensus by Sunday and the government fails to give business to the parliament,” Bista told today’s special session of the parliament. He charged the government of being in a deep slumber.

Maoist lawmaker Malla K Sundar asked the government to immediately investigate the Shivpuri area suspected of being a burial ground for “disappeared” people and take necessary action against the culprits.

UML lawmaker Tara Samyangya urged the government to mobilise a team of experts to the area to excavate the reality of the incident where rags, clothes and partially burnt pieces of wood were found.

Maoist lawmaker Khim Lal Devkota asked the government to protect the evidences found in the Shivpuri jungle from being destroyed.

Lawmaker Lilamani Pokhrel of the Janamorcha Nepal raised concern over what he called “India’s one-sided encroachment” of Nepali land. Pokhrel criticised the government for failing to initiate diplomatic efforts to address the border issue. He also demanded facts and figures of the reported encroachment in Susta of Nawalparasi.

Nepal Workers’ and Peasants’ Party lawmaker Lila Nyainchyain asked Madhesi lawmakers, who had resigned recently, to announce in public what they had done for the cause of the Madhesi people while they were in government.

“Did they do anything for the Madhes other than raising their own buildings in Kathmandu?” she queried.

Janamorcha Nepal lawmaker Hari Acharya ridiculed the parliament for being a “mere spectator and a rubber stamp” of the seven parties.

“There is no use sitting here and waiting for the seven parties’ decision. It is better to dissolve the parliament since it is being used for the interest of the major parties,” he added.