Kathmandu, February 6
A day after the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority indicted Nepali Congress leader Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar in Baluwatar land-grab scam, the main opposition party today obstructed the House of Representatives proceedings, stating the government influenced the CIAA to carry out political vendetta.
The anti-graft body yesterday filed corruption case against 175 individuals and organisations, including the NC’s vice-president and parliamentary party deputy leader Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar, for their role in transferring government-owned land in Lalita Niwas, Baluwatar, in individuals’ names.
Just as Speaker Agni Sapkota announced commencement of the House proceedings today, NC lawmakers stood up from their seats. The speaker then allowed NC Whip Pushpa Bhusal to speak.
Bhusal began her speech lamenting that credibility of the CIAA, an independent constitutional body, had been eroded. “Can the CIAA act to carry out political vendetta?” she questioned. “This is not a democratic practice.”
According to Bhusal, Gachhadar, former minister of physical infrastructure and transport, has been indicted on the basis of a proposal that he tabled in the Cabinet which validated transfer of government-owned land at Baluwatar in the names of individuals.
“However, the then prime minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal, who presided over the Cabinet meeting that approved Gachhadar’s proposal, has been given the clean chit,” she said. “It was not Gachhadar’s decision, but the Cabinet’s decision. If the PM does not want, no proposal can be tabled in the Cabinet, let alone its
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