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Wide body irregularities: NCP lawmakers not happy with House panel’s report

File: A meeting of the Public Accounts Committee

Kathmandu, January 4

Lawmakers of the ruling Nepal Communist Party on Friday have expressed their dissatisfaction over the report of a subcommittee under the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament formed to investigate into alleged irregularities in the purchase of two wide body aircraft for Nepal Airlines Corporation.

The panel headed by Nepali Congress lawmaker Rajendra Kumar KC had submitted its report to the PAC on Wednesday, indicting incumbent Civil Aviation Minister Rabindra Adhikari and his predecessors Jitendra Narayan Dev and Jeevan Bahadur Shahi among others in the case.

However, speaking at the PAC meeting today, the NCP lawmakers defended Adhikari’s role in the deal. Hridayesh Tripathi and Bishal Bhattarai said Adhikari might have released the final instalment of the payment as he did not have any other option after previous instalments were already paid.

They also questioned why the panel recommended different actions for sitting and former ministers.

Likewise, the ruling party members also criticised KC for making the report public to media before the full meeting of PAC discussed it.

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