Kathmandu, December 22
President Bidya Devi Bhandari is not satisfied with the current performance of the government, some leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party who met the head of the state on Saturday inform.
“Do you think the government is performing as it promised in its annual policy and programme and the budget plan,” the president questioned the leaders, “I have been reading various kinds of news reports. How is the government moving ahead? What do you think about it?”
A leader says the president, in particular, was concerned about the government’s recent decision to lease a land piece owned by Nepal Trust to a private business group at a very cheap rate.
During the lunch meeting, the president told the leaders to work effectively and seriously as the government with the two-thirds majority support had a historic opportunity.
While the party was holding its standing committee meeting at its central office in Dhumbarahi, Bhandari had summoned Foreign Affairs Minister Pradeep Gyawali, Energy Minister Barsha Man Pun, Environment Minister Shakti Basnet, Province 5 Chief Minister Shankar Pokhrel, and leaders Janardan Sharma, Surendra Pandey and Devendra Paudel to Sheetal Niwas for the meeting.
Meanwhile, the party’s executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and other leaders objected to the ceremonial president’s interference in the political affairs and the leaders’ act of meeting her without informing the party.
