UML Chair Oli accuses PM Dahal of creating space for foreign role in statute enforcement

Kathmandu, Sept 27:CPN (UML) hair KP Sharma Oli argued that India was invited to exercise its role in and show concern about the implementation of Nepal’s constitution during Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s recent visit to the southern neighbour.
In his address to the meeting of the Legislature-Parliament today as the leader of the main opposition, the former Prime Minister objected to such ‘invitation’ as claimed by the party. Claiming that the Prime Minister did not formally brief the House about his arrival after the visit, he accused the Prime Minister of giving space to India to seek latter’s role in the enforcement process of the country’s main law.
He further accused Prime Minister Dahal of breaching diplomatic norms and values during the state visit to India by ‘mentioning’ the names of political parties at home seeming against the Indian interests before the Indian officials.
He said the point about holding similar views on major international issues included in the joint statement issued during the Prime Minister’s recent India visit was against the principles of Panchasheel, and non-aligned foreign policy adopted by Nepal for long.
Expressing concerns over the government decision to send its special envoys to China and India immediately after the formation of the incumbent government, he demanded the government specify the purpose of its decision. On the occasion, the ex- Prime Minister took the opportunity to question the Prime Minister about his meeting with the Kailali violence main accused and argued that such meeting was not unscheduled.
The chair of main opposition further accused the government of not making required preparations for holding the elections for what the country had a limited time.
He claimed that his party was not formally informed about the government preparations for amending the constitution, underlining the need of meaningful enforcement of the country’s main law.
Drawing the attention of the government towards its ‘attempts’ to grant a pardon to the guilty of the Kailali violence, an example of serious crime in which a two-year-old boy was also killed, he demanded that no perpetrator involved in the cases of heinous crime be pardoned under any circumstances.
The UML chair called on the government to come up with a substantive calendar for the enforcement of the constitution. RSS