NC holding its parliamentary party meeting

KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress (NC), the main opposition party, is scheduled to hold its parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday morning.

The meeting will commence at 10 AM at the federal parliament building in New Baneshwor, according to Ramesh Lekhak, the party’s chief whip.

The NC has called this meeting ahead of the parliament session where the government is set to unveil the budget.

The party has been obstructing both the lower and upper house meetings, demanding a parliamentary investigation committee to probe the cooperative fraud case involving suspected involvement of Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane.

Following the agreement reached on Monday between the ruling and opposition parties on forming a probe panel and its Terms of Reference (ToR), the parliamentary sessions are anticipated to run smoothly from today.

The agreed seven-member probe committee will include representatives from five political parties, with two members each from the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, and one member each from the CPN (Maoist Center), Rastriya Swatantra Party, and Rastriya Prajatantra Party.

The parties have also agreed not to mention Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane by name but to investigate the cooperatives and companies where he is suspected to have been involved.