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Parliamentary hearing for chiefs of constitutional bodies begins despite opposition’s walkout

A meeting of the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee, in Kathmandu, on Wednesday, August 1, 2018.

Kathmandu, February 3

The Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee on Sunday decided to call for complaints from members of the public against five persons nominated to head five constitutional bodies.

Four members of the 15 member panel, belonging to the main opposition party, Nepali Congress, however, protested the decision, handing over a note of dissent and walking out of the meeting.

Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, Jitendra Narayan Dev, Pushpa Bhusal and Bhimsen Das Pradhan have argued in their note of dissent that the nominations are unconstitutional as their party leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, who is also a Constitutional Council member by the virtue of his position as the main opposition leader, was not informed on time about the meeting that recommended the names.

The Council last month had nominated Balananda Paudel for Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission, Shanta Raj Subedi for National Inclusive Commission, Bijaya Kumar Datta for Madheshi Commission, Bishnu Kumar Chaudhary for Tharu Commission and Samim Ansari for Muslim Commission. Deuba was absent in the meeting.

Keshav Aryal, Undersecretary of the committee, says the public are allowed to file complaints within next 10 days.

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