Kathmandu, Oct 26 (RSS): The federal parliament lawmakers have voiced that the tendency to govern the country through ordinance would not contribute towards strengthening the democracy.
At Sunday’s meeting of the State Affairs and Good-Governance Committee under the House of Representatives, lawmakers raised questions to the government about the issues surrounding employment integration that they claimed were forwarded without presenting it in the parliament for deliberations.
During the meeting, lawmaker Krishna Gopal Shrestha argued that the government should take into account that country should not be governed through ordinance. He said, “It is a wrong practice to enable a situation where delaying the function of parliament and governing the country through ordinance.”
Similarly, Brijesh Kumar Gupta argued that it was imperative to inform the parliamentary committee about the core issues in the ordinance while the government considered the integration of the employees.
Prem Suwal claimed that the tendency of the government to govern through ordinance was a wrong one and questioned whether this Committee has right to go through the copies of ordinance.
Lawmaker Dilendra Prasad Badu stated that the government should seek to formulate the laws through parliament. He condemned the tendency of the government that it was wrong to govern the country through ordinance.
Likewise, Nabaraj Silwal opined that the government should have informed the Committee about the issues in the ordinance. He viewed that the government should have taken the Committee into confidence.
Rekha Sharma asserted that it was undemocratic for the government to move ahead through ordinance and argued that the Committee had the right to take cognizant of the contents of the Ordinance.
Rajendra Shrestha spoke of the need to resolve the issues regarding adjustment of employees in line with the parliamentary practices.
Committee President Shashi Shrestha towards the end of the meeting shared that the Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration would be summoned to brief the lawmakers about the core issues in the Employee Adjustment Ordinance.
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