Lawmaker Sunar Criticizes Government's Inhumanity Towards Displaced Squatters; Lawmaker Mishra Raises Concerns Over Supreme Court Dispute

 Kathmandu. Nepal Communist Party lawmaker Bhanu Bhawan Sunar has accused the government of being extremely unkind in the matter of protecting citizens removed from squatter settlements.

Speaking in the zero hour of the National Assembly meeting on Tuesday, he expressed strong dissatisfaction with the government's behavior towards squatters and raised serious questions about the state's humanity. 

He commented that the state has become cruel even when witnessing the pathetic condition of the elderly, pregnant, postpartum, children, and sick who have been displaced in the name of shelter. Strongly criticizing the current government's move, lawmaker Sunar said, 'The voice of the squatter settlement is like the post-war ruins; who wouldn't be moved by the pathetic cries, streams of tears, and screams of the elderly, postpartum, pregnant, sick, and children who have been driven out of their own huts into the rain in the name of shelter? Thank you, Balen government, how cruel the two-thirds government can be towards humanity!'

Similarly, in the meeting, Nepali Congress lawmaker Narayandatta Mishra said that the recent dispute in the Supreme Court seems to have a very negative impact on the legal and judicial sector. He stated that the independence and dignity of the judiciary should not be weakened under any circumstances. 

According to lawmaker Mishra, keeping the judiciary independent is the shared responsibility of the executive, legislature, and all constitutional bodies. He said that the fact that the administration did not even obey the instruction given by the acting Chief Justice to immediately register pending writs in the Supreme Court has raised serious questions about the country's overall justice system. 

Mentioning that the incident where high officials of the Supreme Court administration left their offices and went outside made the judicial circle agitated all day, he alerted everyone that such activities weaken public trust in the court.