Bindu Timsina, chairman of Industrial Area Management Limited (IAML), Giriraj Bhandari, general manger of IAML, Dr Raj Kishor Shah, chairman of Nepal Drugs Limited (NDL), Tikaram Sharma Rijal, general manager of NDL and Sarala KC, board member of NDL, are among the high ranking officials who filed their resignations on Friday.
Similarly, Bal Gopal Thapa Magar, chairman of Hetauda Cement, Dr Mast Bahadur Garanja, chairman of Udaypur Cement and Dr Bhola Sah, general manager of Janakpur Cigarette Factory, were also among the officials who tendered their joint resignation on Friday. Also resigning on Friday were Saraswati Bati, chairman of Cottage and Small Industries Development Committee (CSIDC) and Shyam Giri, executive director of CSIDC.
All of the officials, who stepped down from their posts on Friday, were appointed by the coalition government led by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The coalition government was replaced by another coalition government led by the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist).
“Despite the change of government, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal had requested us not to resign,” Giriraj Bhandari, general manger of IAML, told journalists at a press meet on Sunday, on behalf of all the officials who had tendered their resignations. “But Minister for Industry started making public comments that we were not cooperating with the ministry by not resigning from our posts.”
Later, some of the line ministries also started summoning chairmen of some of the state-owned enterprises and cutting down benefits like vehicle facility (which high-ranking officials are entitled to), he added. “These actions were taken to humiliate us,” Bhandari said, adding, “We, thus, no longer have the desire to serve the companies that we were appointed to. And we have stepped down from our positions on moral grounds.”
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