BIRATNAGAR: Senior leader of ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Madhav Kumar Nepal has said the widely-debated Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is in favor of Nepal.

He said that the party will make its formal position clear on the MCC issue once the task force to recommend on the issue will submit it to the party leadership while speaking to journalists in Biratnagar today.

NCP leader Nepal said that the party formed the three-member task force to make clear about the MCC as confusion whether or not it was a part of the Indo-Pacific Strategy prevailed within the party.

“The United States has been a good friend that has supported Nepal on various aspects,” he said.

Former Prime Minister Nepal, meanwhile, refuted his involvement in the controversial Lalita Niwas land grab scam.

Leader Nepal refuted to have made any decisions on the issue while he was the prime minister.

NCP senior leader Nepal clarified the issue two days after the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) said the anti-graft body did not indict him on the case as the decision he made as the Prime Minister does not fall under the CIAA’s jurisdiction.

The CIAA had on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against 175 persons at the Special Court.

Leader Nepal said he was not a culprit as he was not involved in any illegal act adding that no corrupt should walk free.