A cabinet meeting held at Singha Durbar on Thursday took a decision to this effect. The government´s decision comes in the wake of the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML demanding that all political appointments made by the Bhattarai-led government be scrapped to ensure free and fair election. [break]
NC and UML had alleged that the commission had distributed identity cards only to those who supported UCPN (Maoist) apparently to influence the upcoming Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. The issue of the scrapping political appointments made by the Bhattarai-led government to influence the upcoming election had been a bone of contention among the political parties represented in the High Level Political Committee (HLPC) meetings.
According to Minister for Information and Communications Madhav Poudel, who is also the spokesperson of the Khil Raj Regmi-led Interim Election Council of Ministers, the cabinet meeting Thursday also decided to form a judicial committee under former justice Tahir Ali Ansari to probe the murder of former lawmaker Sadrul Miya Haq. Likewise, the meeting decided to provide Rs 1 million to the family of slain Haq as compensation.
Among other things, the cabinet meeting has decided to delegate the authorities of Department of Foreign Employment to Embassy of Nepal in Saudi Arabia in view of the Saudi government´s decision to grant amnesty to those working illegally there. This amnesty provision will pave the way to them for both changing their illegal status into legal ones and coming back home without having to face any punishment.
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