KATHMANDU: CPN-UML leader Gokul Baskota has remarked that the current multi-party parliamentary system is being changed to bring the opposition alliance to power.
Baskota ridiculed the opposition coalition and their lawyers’ insistence that Article 76 of the constitution should not be subject to party affiliation and that the prime minister should be elected as an independent.
Stating that no article of the constitution envisions a party-less system, Baskota Thursday accused the opposition alliance led by Sher Bahadur Deuba of trying to establish a party-less system in Nepal through the courts.
He tweeted, “Opposition has hit the streets. But why? Are the parties that once stood for the establishment of democracy taking to the streets today to cancel that system and to restore a system devoid of multi-party democracy from the courts? If Article 76, Articles 2 and 5 of the Constitution are not related, then lawmakers elected on party tickets do not have any relation to the government. If it is so then the opposition is trying to change the multi-party system to get power.”
Baskota said that if the court interpreted that in Article 76 (5) lawmakers of any party could go anywhere and would not be subject to party whip then from that day totalitarian system of buying and selling lawmakers would start at the center and expand to local levels.
Explaining further, he said, “It might be fun to oust KP Oli today, but from the next day onwards, changing hands between two to four lawmakers will start in the provinces for change of governments. At least I don’t think the court will give such verdict.”
विपक्षी सडकमा तर किन?हिजो लोकतन्त्र स्थापनार्थ खडा भएका दल आज अदालतबाट निर्दल पुनस्थापनाका लागि सडकमा हो? संबिधानको धारा७६को २ र ५ को संबन्ध छैन भन्ने हो भने पार्टी टिकेट सांसद र सरकारको संबन्धै रहेन।त्यसो हो भने विपक्षी गठबंन्धन सत्ताको लागि प्रणाली नै परिवर्तन तर्फ लाग्यो।
— Gokul Prasad Baskota (@GokulPBaskota) June 24, 2021
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