LAHAN, Jan 5: Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Bishwa Prakash Sharma, during a campaign for the by-election in Madhesh Province in late November, had called for a new government in the province under NC’s leadership.
Sharma argued that a new government was essential because the Janamat Party-led Madhesh Province government was able to work according to the people’s expectations.
It has been six months since the Janamat Party took charge of the Madhesh government, as per the agreement reached between the ruling coalition parties. With the change in the federal power coalition, a government was formed in Madhesh Province under the leadership of Satish Kumar Singh of the Janamat Party on June 7.
With the NC General Secretary’s statement that the NC will now take the initiative to form a government under its own leadership since the work has not been done according to the people’s wishes, the NC has been lobbying the ruling coalition parties to lead the government in Madhesh.
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Sources claim that the ruling parties can easily form a government by removing Janamat from the leadership with an understanding among the NC, UML, and Loktantrik Samajwadi Party (LSP).
As the exercise to change the leadership continues, the 8-point opinion letter made public by the secretariat of Janamat Party Chairman Dr CK Raut on Saturday has shaken the power politics of Madhesh. The party made public the opinion, alleging that the Madhesh government has not been able to function due to the current ruling parties. Janamat Party argued that the Madhesh government has not been able to function due to the restrictions imposed by the NC and the UML.”
The party alleged that the Finance Ministry blocked the Provincial Line Ministry Budget Information System (PLMBIS) until November but did not receive any response from the Finance Minister when asked about it.
Likewise, Janamat Party has accused the chief secretary in the province of taking leave for two months against the directive of the chief minister (CM), and not listening to the federal government’s repeated requests to change the chief secretary. The Janamat Party also alleged that the NC and the UML have been conspiring to stop the far-sighted, employment-oriented, and popular programs included in the budget fearing that those programs will cause political losses to them in the future.
Following accusations by the Janamat Party against the NC-UML, there has been distrust among the ruling coalition parties. NC parliamentary party leader Krishna Prasad Yadav said that the Janamat Party made the accusation against the NC-UML to cover up the incompetence of CM Singh.
“The government is being led by the Janamat party. The NC came to power only after the budget was presented. If there are any shortcomings in the budget, the NC will not take responsibility for it. The CM should take all the responsibility for the budget,” Yadav said, “Now it is the government’s responsibility to correct it. We cannot accept the accusation against the NC and the Finance Minister for this.”
Yadav said that the NC-UML coalition has taken the 8-point opinion seriously and will discuss it soon and take a decision. UML Parliamentary Party leader and Minister for Physical Infrastructure Development Saroj Kumar Yadav also called the expression of public opinion immature politics.
Similarly, Yadav said that making unnecessary accusations against the parties of the ruling coalition is a serious issue. According to him, this issue will be discussed in the coalition meeting.
Janamat Party parliamentary party leader Mahesh Prasad Yadav claimed that the party’s 8-point vision will not have any impact on the ruling coalition.
The ruling coalition partner NC, has been dissatisfied since the day Janamat Party’s Singh was sworn in as the CM in Madhesh Province on June 7. NC Province President Krishna Prasad Yadav, who is also the leader of the parliamentary party in Madhesh Province, has been continuously increasing pressure on the party leadership for the change in government.
