Opposition Parties Urge President to Withhold Ordinances, Convene Parliament

Kathmandu. Opposition parties have urged President Ram Chandra Paudel to withdraw the ordinances recommended for issuance and to convene the Federal Parliament session immediately. The meeting held at the parliamentary party office of the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, in Singha Durbar, urged the government to do so. Leaders including the Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party Leader Bhishma Raj Angdembe, CPN-UML Parliamentary Party Leader Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal, Chief Whip of the Communist Party of Nepal Yuvraj Dulal, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party MP Sarita Lama participated in the meeting.

A statement signed by the leaders of all four parties after the meeting reads, 'We strongly demand that the suspended Federal Parliament session be convened without delay. We strongly demand that the ordinances be withdrawn immediately.'

Similarly, the meeting decided to urge the President not to issue two ordinances recommended by the government to the President, one amending the Act Relating to the Functions, Duties, and Powers of the Constitutional Council, 2066, and the Cooperatives Act, 2074, as well as the ordinance related to Health Science Institutions on Baishakh 15, the ordinance to amend some Nepal laws, and the ordinance relating to universities.

'As the ordinances have been recommended with the intention of bypassing parliament, we sincerely request the Honorable President not to approve them,' the statement reads.