Opposition Parties Prepare to Protest Controversial Clauses in House of Representatives Regulations

Kathmandu. Opposition parties are preparing to protest in the House of Representatives demanding the removal of controversial clauses included in the House of Representatives Regulations. Major opposition party Nepali Congress, opposition party CPN UML and other parties are going to protest demanding the removal of the provision that the House of Representatives operating regulations cannot be considered a special law. 

Chief Whip of Nepali Congress, Basana Thapa, said that Congress and other opposition parties had disagreed with making the regulations a special law even in the regulations drafting committee and would register that disagreement today as well.

 “We had disagreements on 3 clauses in the regulations drafting committee as well,” Chief Whip Thapa told Ratopati, “We are also preparing to register that disagreement in today’s meeting.”

Chief Whip of CPN UML, Ain Mahar, also said that they have disagreements on some clauses of the regulations. The chief whips and whips of the two parties met in Singha Durbar in the morning and discussed how to move forward with the disagreements. 

“We will have objections regarding the regulations, if forced, we will protest, we will surround the bell,” UML Chief Whip Ain Mahar told Ratopati.