KATHMANDU: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota has urged one and all not to make hue and cry about the Cabinet meeting held through video conferencing.
A meeting was conducted through video-conferencing on August 26 making the most of the ICT where Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had taken part while he was in Singapore for his treatment.
Speaking in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) seeking special time with the Speaker, Minister Banskota argued that video conferencing was the best usage of the information technology and urged not make unnecessary comments on it.
Banskota clarified, ” The video-conferencing between the PM and members of Council of Ministers was just a sit-down virtually to exchange information on the national concerns. It was not a cabinet meeting. I can’t understand who named it a cabinet meeting and how false information is doing rounds among us.”
According to him, the Ministers exchanged information with the PM but did not make any decision during that video-conferencing.
Stating that the incumbent government was responsible towards the country and the citizen, the Minister reaffirmed the government’s commitment to having integrity towards the national interest.
Minister Banskota urged one and all not to flare up the issue relating to the video-conferencing. He viewed that the instance of video-conference had provided that Nepal is also capable of leveraging information technology.
He informed that he had briefed the media about the video-conferencing the same day it was held.
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