INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 4The Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party held an emergency situation conference to decide whether it should
withdraw support to the government over the house portfolio, however deferred the meeting till tomorrow.
The RSP held the meeting late at
night after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal provided it the physical facilities and transport portfolio rather of house portfolio.
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The RSP held the
conference late in the evening after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal provided it the physical infrastructure and transportation portfolio
instead of home portfolio.
RSP legislator Santosh Pariyar informed mediapersons after the meeting that they chose to hold the next
conference tomorrow as they needed more time to debate contemporary problems
In action to a journalists question, Pariyar stated his celebration had not served any demand to the government.We had offered two days time
since Coordinator of the top-level system (KP Sharma Oli) and the PM had looked for 2 days to deal with the concern, he added.Pariyar said
they discussed contemporary issues, by-election in Chitwan Constituency-2 and governmental election
We did not discuss whether we should leave the federal government, he added.Pariyar said party leaders were of the view that the RSPs
demand was made to appear like a fissure in the judgment coalition, however the real cause could be something else
He was alluding to the differences in between the CPN-UML and CPN-MC over governmental election.The UML desires its prospect to be elected
the next president, whereas the CPN- MC desires the brand-new president to be chosen through consensus.Pariyar stated his party leaders
desired the government to hold by-election in Chitwan-2 as quickly as possible.The RSP had been requiring that the PM needs to reassign the
house portfolio to the celebration as that was part of the power sharing offer, but the PM refused saying he wanted to wait till the Supreme
Court launches the complete texts of its verdicts in cases submitted versus Rabi Lamichhane.All RSP leaders are not in favour of stopping
the government over the home portfolio.The Supreme Court revoked Lamichhanes election to your home of Representatives that led to
Lamichhanes loss of the house portfolio.SC invalidated his election to HoR in action to 2 writ petitions filed against him arguing that he
did not get his Nepali citizenship brought back after he renounced his US citizenship
After the court verdict, Lamichhane got his Nepali citizenship restored.However, PM Dahal refused to select Lamichhane as minister or
designate the house portfolio to his celebration stating the party must wait till the SC releases the full text of the decision on the case
versus Lamichhane.CPN-MC leaders also said the PM ought to not give the house portfolio to RSP as its Chair Lamichhane was dealing with the
charge of holding 2 passports - Nepali and American
They said providing the house portfolio to the RSP could develop a case of conflict of interest.A version of this article appears in the
print on February 5, 2023, of The Himalayan Times
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