KATHMANDU – Prime Minister KP Sharma has said the protest by opposition parties over the government’s decision to discontinue Kulman Ghising as the Managing Director of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has obstructed the parliament’s major business.
In his address to the separate sessions of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly today, the Prime Minister said the parliament hours should be spent for enacting laws instead of obstructing it over the status of an employee. He further said that the line minister holds the right to continue or not continue the employee on the basis of merits and demerits. The obstruction in the House for that past few days has hampered the major business of the parliament, according to the Prime Minister.
He said the cooperation from the employees also matters in the delivery of the minister. “In case of the non-cooperation from the employee- level, there are provisions allowing the government to transfer, to keep the employee unassigned, to seek clarification, to warn or even relieve of the post and such procedures are expected and lawful as well.”
As he said, if the relevant employee is not convinced by the government action, the law has guaranteed the right to seek legal remedy.
According to the Prime Minister, it is not time for debating on the removal of Ghising, but for making united efforts for the safeguarding of the Constitution, civic rights, the protection of federal democratic republic and the implementation of it. “Parliament is not a venue for protesting the Constitution and democracy,” the Prime Minister said.
He further added that it is not constitutional to talk about the restoration of monarchy in the parliament that had already established the federal democratic republic by abolishing such system.
Following the Prime Minister’s address to the lower house, lawmaker Gyanendra Bahadur Shahi said the Prime Minister used an ‘insulting word’ during his address and it should be removed from the parliament archive.
