MP Ashika Tamang Questions Extravagant Spending on MP Training Programs

Kathmandu. National Independent Party MP Ashika Tamang has objected to the training and orientation programs organized for MPs being held in expensive five-star hotels. Making her views public through social media Facebook, she raised serious questions about the misuse of state resources and wasteful expenditure.

Her argument is that there is no compulsion to hold programs in expensive hotels outside or borrow halls from others when sufficient assembly halls are available within Singha Durbar. MP Tamang questioned who would account for the expenses incurred by holding programs outside when many assembly halls are available within Singha Durbar.

She said, 'Is there really no compulsion for MPs to hold training programs or orientation programs in five-star hotels or by borrowing halls from others outside? There are so many assembly halls in Singha Durbar, why outside? Who will account for how much the expenses are per day outside?'

If expensive hotels are chosen citing security reasons, her sarcastic question is whether MPs only need security for one day and not on other days.

She emphasized that new forces that came with the agenda of change should not follow in the footsteps of the old ones. Reminding that they themselves stood for change and committed to not spending wastefully, she said it is sad that the old tendencies are being repeated in practice.

She further added, 'When we ourselves are walking for change, and speaking about not spending wastefully, if the practice is the same as what was said, then what is the difference between the old and us new ones?'