KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress leader Gagan Thapa captivated the lawmakers of the House of Representatives (HoR) when he took the mic at the rostrum of the HoR and labeled the government’s policies and programs as insane, illusionary and deceitful.
Lawmakers seemed to be awe-stricken when he went on to criticize the government’s policies and programs as an ‘incomplete and adrift essay’, having no positive implications.
Taking part in the discussion on the government’s policies and programs on Monday, Thapa ridiculed the government’s claims of concluding the peace process at a time when the transitional justice remains incomplete.
Thapa lambasted the government of not sparing the state organs including the executive, judiciary, and legislature on various pretexts while “it claims of equal justice” to everyone. “The government even did not spare National Human Rights Commission, Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, among other constitutional bodies,” he said.
“And the government claims that the past one year proved to be a year of all goods,” Thapa said while coming down heavily on the government for failing on all fronts. “How could the government claim to have addressed the grudges of the people when all decisions have pinched their aspirations?” he queried saying that the government having a two-thirds majority missed an ‘excellent opportunity’ to prove itself. “The policies and programs have been a blend of complete confusion,” he stated.
NC youth leader Thapa reminded Prime Minister KP Oli-led government of a famous saying of Albert Einstein, which goes as saying: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” By saying so, Thapa meant to say that the government too was treading on the same track.
That is not all. He expressed sarcasm labeling the government as “President Bidhya Devi Bhandari’s government” and asked whether the government would continue the same practice or move forward by changing its attitude.
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