Kathmandu, February 6
The main opposition party, Nepali Congress, on Thursday obstructed the House of Representatives meeting protesting the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority’s decision to indict the parliamentary party’s deputy leader Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar on a corruption case.
Gachhadar was one among 175 defendants indicted in a charge-sheet that the anti-corruption constitutional body registered at the Special Court on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in the notorious Baluwatar land grab case.
Speaking at the House meeting today, the party’s whip Pushpa Bhusal said the commission indicted Gachhadar just because he was an opposition leader. She said, “This incident has proved that the constitutional body is just a helpless shadow of the government.”
Bhusal was angry after the commission did not indict Navin Paudel, the son of ruling Nepal Communist Party General Secretary Bishnu Paudel and Supreme Court Justice Kumar Regmi, who own two plots of the land, claiming they had promised to return it to the government.
Following Bhusal’s statement, the lawmakers of the party stood up from their seats, forcing the speaker to halt the meeting.
