KATHMANDU, Feb 21: As the government did not give business to the parliament, the winter session this year will end after holding only the zero hour and special hour.

Lawmakers are complaining that the parliament is not able to function properly because the government has not given any business to the parliament. As the current session of parliament is bogged down in technical matters, other parliamentary activities have not been able to take place.

Spokesperson of the Parliament Secretariat, Ekram Giri, said that the government has not submitted any bill for re-register even though the bills presented in the previous session of House of Representatives turned ineffective after the term of the house expired.

He said that among the 27 bills that were inactive after the end of the term of the previous House of Representatives, a bill to amend some laws related to prevention of money laundering and promotion of business environment were registered, while none of the other bills were registered by the government in the parliament secretariat.

He said that so far four bills in the House of Representatives and nine bills in the National Assembly are under consideration.

On the other hand, member of the House of Representatives from Nepali Congress and party spokesperson Praka Sharan Mahat said that the government could not give business to the parliament. He said that since the government could not guarantee how long the parliament would last, the parliamentarians could not pay attention to the bills that were registered in the parliament.

MP Mahat said that because the government could not give business to the parliament, there were not much parliamentary activities. According to Mahat, since the parliamentary committees have not been formed yet, there is a problem in fulfilling the responsibilities of the parliament.

Political affairs have overshadowed parliamentary activities. After this session of the Federal Parliament comes the budget session. But the political parties in the parliament are currently engaged in the presidential election. Therefore, the tug-of-war is expected to continue until March 9. 

As a result, the future of the current government will be determined accordingly. Since the budget session will start from the second week of May, it seems that the parliament will run out of time to move the process forward by discussing the bills that were rejected in the previous term.

 
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