Two opposition parties represented in the House of Representatives boycotted today's HoR meeting, demanding formation of a parliamentary committee regarding the visit visa scam.
Soon after Speaker Devraj Ghimire announced the commencement of the meeting, lawmakers of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) protested by standing up from their respective seats.
After the protest, Speaker Ghimire allocated time for RSP lawmaker Manish Jha to put forth his view.
On the occasion, Jha shared that it was unfortunate to pass the Civil Service Bill making changes on 'cooling off period' provision.
"An attempt has been made to form the committee under coordination of Nepali Congress. So it will not be acceptable to us ", he mentioned.
Stating that a parliamentary committee regarding 'cooling off period' issue is going to be formed, Deepak Bahadur Singh of RPP demanded a parliamentary committee to probe into the visit visa scam as the prime minister to lower-level employees are connected in this scam.
He raised the question why the parliamentary committee was not formed regarding this issue, adding the RPP would boycott today's meeting.
With this, both RSP and RPP lawmakers exit from the meeting.
