Nepali Congress Criticizes PM Balendra Shah's Government for Ineffective 100-Point Agenda

Kathmandu. The main opposition Nepali Congress has concluded that the 100-point agenda for governance reform published by the government led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah (Balen) has not been effectively implemented. Determining that the government has failed to fulfill its own commitments, the Congress has decided to raise this issue strongly in the parliament.

A meeting of the coordinators assigned to ministries, chaired by the leader of the Nepali Congress parliamentary party, Bhishma Raj Angdembe, held at the party's office in Singh Durbar on Saturday, reviewed the ministry-wise reports and reached this conclusion about the government's performance.

Whereas, in the past, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chairman Ravi Lamichhane had claimed that if his party got the opportunity to run the government for 100 days, the country would 'shed its skin'. Now, the Congress alleges that the 100-point governance reform agenda published by the government, led by Balendra Shah, a senior leader of his party, has not been effectively implemented.

The meeting decided to make this issue a major agenda of the parliament in its first decision. The decision states, 'To strongly raise issues in the parliament regarding the ineffective implementation of the 100-point agenda for governance reform, to regularly monitor the progress of the government's work, and to play a more active role as the main opposition party in the parliament to make the government accountable.'

Along with this, the Congress has also adopted a policy of continuously monitoring the performance of the government ministries. The meeting reviewed the reports submitted by the ministry-wise coordinators and decided to draw the government's attention to take necessary corrective measures and make the performance more effective based on the suggestions and conclusions received.

The second decision of the meeting states, 'To review the reports submitted by the ministry-wise coordinators and to draw the government's attention to take necessary corrective actions and make the performance more effective according to the suggestions and conclusions received.'

Similarly, the meeting also decided to send the reports submitted by the ministry-wise coordinators to the party's central working committee for information.