Speaking during special hour at parliament, lawmakers said the recent incident of an armed group shooting at an assistant chief district officer in Parsa and leaving his bodyguard dead was testimony to the poor state of law and order. [break]
NC lawmaker Ajaya Kumar Dwibedi said law and order in the Tarai has worsened as the government did not hold serious talks with agitating armed groups operating in the region. Stating that the people in the Tarai were forced to live in constant fear, he said a large number of people are fleeing to safer places.
Dwibedi said that criminal outfits sheltering across the border were unleashing violence in Parsa and surrounding districts. He asked the government to bolster security and help curb such criminal activities.
Dwibedi also drew the attention of the government to the prolonged power outage in the country. He said the situation has worsened as the government shut down a coal-fired plant.
Speaking on the occasion, Laxmi Raj Nepal of Rastriya Jana Morcha said the state of impunity has given rise to criminal activity.
He criticized the remark of Maoist lawmaker Hisila Yami that those speaking against federalism should be treated like the terrorist organization ´Al Qaeda´. Yami had suggested disbanding parties advocating against federalism.
Co-Chairman of Rastriya Janashakti Party Dr Prakash Chandra Lohani said it is nothing but totalitarian thinking on the part of Yami to suggest equating anti-federal parties with ´Al Qaeda´. He said everyone should be able to put his views freely in a democratic system.
A bill relating to ethnic discrimination and untouchability (charge and punishment), the Investment Board Bill 2065 BS and the Nepal Electricity Regulation Commission Bill 2065 BS were tabled in the House Tuesday.
HLPM anti-democratic body: NWPP
Nepal Workers Peasants Party (NWPP) leader Sunil Prajapati termed the newly-formed High Level Political Mechanism an ´anti-democratic´ body.
Speaking during special hour in parliament Tuesday, Prajapati said it is not clear whether the mechanism is of the ruling or opposition parties. "We will not accept the mechanism if it is formed just to take the opposition party into power," he said. "The mechanism appears to be an anti-democratic body."
Prajapati said if the mechanism is meant for taking the Maoists to power it is akin to the NC and UML surrendering to the Maoists.
He also criticized the big parties for not consulting smaller parties while constituting the HLPM. "Earlier there was a tyranny of two parties," he said. "Now the three big parties are trying to impose a tyranny on other parties."
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