Parliament should be made lively, people-oriented: Speaker Sapkota

LUMBINI: Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has said that problems have been created due to the trend of interpreting laws by everyone in their own way.

Sapkota said so while inaugurating the interaction organized by Lumbini Province Assembly in Lumbini on Tuesday.

Stressing that the legislature should pay attention to making laws, he said that they should be seriously involved in finding out structural loopholes of the federal parliament and province legislature and resolve the problems.

Speaker Sapkota stressed the need of playing historic role to make the parliament lively, people-oriented and dignified.

Similarly, policy advisor of UNDP, Nepal, Binda Magar, General Secretary of the Federal Parliament, Dr Bharat Raj Gautam, among others, laid emphasis on making parliament practices more effective and people-oriented.

Speakers and deputy speakers of all seven provinces would exchange their five-year experience on the implementation of federalism as well as discuss its challenges and possibilities in the interaction.

A draft committee formed to prepare a synthesis report of the program would prepare a report incorporating the issues raised in the interaction.