Kathmandu, July 18 (RSS): Major opposition Nepali Congress has decided to organize protests in all the district headquarters on July 31, showing discontent over some activities of the central and provincial governments.
Issuing a press release Tuesday, NC General Secretary Dr Sashank Koirala directed the district committees of the party and all sister organizations, units and well wishers to participate in the protest programme. He accused the government of working in a unilateral manner and violating the constitutional provision of having Speaker and Deputy Speaker from different parties in the federal parliament and state assemblies.
According to him, the government was concentrating power against the spirit of federalism, taking independent judiciary against the separation of power and keeping constitutional bodies under the executives’ shadow.
“Appointments made in a legal basis by the NC government were cancelled in an illegitimate manner; and various decision as lowering the age for allowance of elderly age from 70 to 65 and Rs 5,000 monthly incentives to those suffering from chronic diseases like spinal injury, cancer, heart disease, and additional Rs 100,000 grant for the quake suffered households was terminated by this government. So, these anti-people activities of this government must be protested,” he argued in the press release.
General Secretary Koirala further said Medical Education Bill issued through ordinance by then government should be brought without any change.
According to him, the government ignored the price hike of daily essentials, suppressed press freedom and showed apathy to the survivors of the landslides and flooding.
Meanwhile, a meeting of the sister organizations of NC held under the chairmanship of party Vice President Bimalendra Nidhi decided to organize protest programmes against the
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