The speaker has also ordered the parliament secretariat to make an assessment of the destruction through experts and fine the lawmaker the amount assessed.[break]
"This notice has hereby been issued as per the order from the speaker to suspend Sah for 10 days with effect from Thursday and to reimburse from his salary an amount equal to the loss incurred due to his destructive behavior," reads a notice issued by the parliament secretariat.
Secretariat sources said the microphones are expensive types and they estimate the cost of the three pieces at around Rs. 80,000.
No sooner did the speaker adjourn the House meeting than Sah broke the three microphones and bashed them against the tables in front of his seat, venting fury at the speaker for not allowing him to speak in parliament.
Following the incident, Sah went to the speaker´s chamber to complain before him at not being allowed for months to speak in House meeting. Nembang said it was the respective party that recommends lawmakers´ names to the speaker to address House meetings. "What you did inside parliament is very wrong and you will be punished for that," the speaker told him. In reply, Sah said, "I am ready to face the action".
Sah repeatedly asked the reason for not being allowed to air his views in parliament. The speaker then suggested to him to seek the reason from his own party.
A lawmaker from the Madhesi People´s Rights Forum (Democratic), Sah was state minister for physical planning and works in the Madhav Kumar Nepal-led government. He was sacked from that post, the party´s central committee and other positions.
MPRF-D Chief Whip Ramjanam Chaudhary said the party may sack Sah, who was elected from Dhanusha-4, any time in the near future. Chaudhary said the party could not sack him before as he had filed a case in court. "The court nullified his case just yesterday [Friday]. So the party can now sack him any time," Chaudhary told Republica.
House obstructed
Earlier, lawmakers from major political parties obstructed House proceedings, demanding action against the guilty involved in beating to death a dalit youth from Kalikot district earlier this month.
Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma and Khadga Bahadur Basyal Sarki of UCPN (Maoist), Chhavilal Bishwakarma of CPN-UML and lawmakers from other parties came down heavily on the government for not taking any action.
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