KATHMANDU: The ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is launching ‘Citizens, Policy and Leadership’ program, starting Monday.
Recognizing the fact that the essence of democracy is elected leadership being constantly in touch with and accountable to the citizens, the RSP is going to hosting the program to develop a people-responsive, transparent and result-oriented political culture. Under the program, the members of the cabinet representing the party must visit the central party office at least once a month to hold a direct dialogue with the citizens and the party ranks.
RSP Parliamentary Party Whip Prakash Chandra Pariyar said that this program is being run to serve as a bridge to connect the voices of the grassroots directly to the level of state policy formulation and implementation. In the first phase of the program, a one-hour in the evening will be completely open to the general public, and the ministers present there will directly listen to the grievances, expectations and suggestions of the general public.
In the second phase, a joint meeting will be held between ministers, party central committee members and members of the House of Representatives, and based on the suggestions received from citizens in the first phase intensive discussions will be held on contemporary, multi-dimensional and policy-level issues of the country.
Whip Pariyar said that this initiative is expected to promote coordination between citizens, government (ministers), legislature (MPs) and organization (central committee), and help formulate a common strategy to effectively address citizens’ issues.
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