Speaking during the special hour, parliamentarians from ruling CPN-UML, Madhesi People´s Rights Forum (Democratic), Tarai-Madhes Democratic Party, Sadbhavana Party (Anandidevi) and the main opposition UCPN (Maoist) objected to her remark made last week.
Koirala, who also holds the portfolio of foreign minister had said last week that a referendum should be held to decide whether to adopt a federal system.
"It seems that the foreign minister is totally against federalism just like former king Gyanendra was against it," Lal Babu Pandit of UML said at the parliament, adding, "She should be sacked from the deputy prime ministerial post and should be sent to Germany to study the success story of federalism there."
Maoist lawmaker Ram Kumar Sharma said that Sujata echoed the voice of her father and former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
However, Chitra Bahadur KC of National People´s Front and Chandra Bahadur Gurung of Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal supported Sujata.
Bill on CC passed
The parliament meeting passed a bill on the Constitutional Council (CC) that was tabled in the House on December 28.
The government prepared the CC bill to bring in law regarding the operation of the council. At present, the CC is run as per some regulations.
Likewise, the meeting decided to forward a bill on Public Service Commission that was tabled on the same day to the parliament´s statute committee.
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