CPN UML Questions PM's Advisors' Authority Over Constitutional Bodies and Judges

Kathmandu. CPN UML has questioned who gave the Prime Minister's advisors the authority to summon and instruct the heads of constitutional bodies and judges. Speaking during a special time in the National Assembly's Monday meeting, UML MP Somnath Poudel expressed serious concern, stating that the Prime Minister's advisors summon and instruct the heads of constitutional bodies and judges and even issue death threats.  

 “Who gave the Prime Minister's advisors this authority? Neither the parliament nor the constitution recognizes them,” Poudel said, “Such unconstitutional acts must be stopped immediately.”

Discussing the government's 100-point promises for 100 days, Poudel questioned where the promise of state apology and structural reform for the Dalit community, mentioned in the first point, has reached.

 “When did the Prime Minister apologize to the nation or the parliament? Where is a single program and budget for the Dalit community in the budget?” Poudel asked, “If there is even one concrete program for the Dalit community in this budget, the ministers should show it.”

He also objected to the current government cutting programs for the Dalit community that were introduced by the previous CPN UML-led government. Poudel recalled that the previous government had allocated 50 crore for the 'Bhagat Sarbajit Entrepreneurship Development Program', arranged for loans up to 10 lakh without collateral for Dalit entrepreneurs, and introduced a program to award couples who inter-caste marriages.

 “Currently, 4750 thousand houses have been built for citizens, in which the homeless Dalits were prioritized. But this government has even finished the existing budget by reallocating it,” Poudel said.