KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Lawmakers demanded time to put their views on various contemporary issues in a session of the House of Representatives (HoR) held on Monday.
Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Chief Whip Santosh Pariyar demanded the government to come up with a substantive law against caste-based discriminations against the Dalit community.
Lawmaker Abdul Khan apprised the House that last year, the country recorded 2,507 cases of rape, adding that each day three-two four cases of rape against women take place in the country.
He demanded action against those responsible for the rape of an adolescent girl in Bardagoriya, Kailali, on February 8. Khan also accused the government of failing to address the illegal registration of public land at Badaiya Lake in Bardiya, which he claimed was being misused for personal purposes.
Lawmaker Amresh Kumar Singh urged the Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office not to repeat the incident of using a bulldozer to assault scrap material collectors.
Lawmaker from Nepali Congress Mohan Bahadur Basnet pressed the government to respond to a fire at Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality in Sindhupalchowk, which occurred on January 31 and was extinguished by February 3. Basnet blamed the fire on a nearby hydropower project and demanded the government hold the project accountable for the disaster.