The Judicial Investigation Commission on property issued a notice Tuesday calling on former parliamentarians and ministers to present themselves at the Commission secretariat with reasons for not submitting their property details.
The Commission has asked former Ministers Mahanta Thakur and Marshal Julum Shakya, Minister of State Kamalesh Kumar Sharma, former MPs Uma Adhikari, Govinda Prasad Sharma (Kandel), Mahendra Dhoj GC, Uma Kanta Chaudhary and Devi Lal Thapa to present themselves immediately at the Commission along with reasons for not submitting their property details.
The Commission has also published the named of 37 members of the lower House, 16 National Assembly members and two Assistant Ministers saying that they too had not presented their property details despite repeated requests.
The names of the former lawmakers who are yet to fill up the forms are Om Bikash Gauchan, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (Parbat), Krishna Bahadur Gurung, Khalil Miya Ansari, Govinda Chaudhary, Chakka Bahadur Lama, Jhaka Bahadur Pun, Tilak Prasad Neupane, Durgananda Prasad Singh Chaudhary, Nathuni Singh Danwar, Nil Bahadur Tilija, Bal Krishna Khaand, Mani Kumar Limbu, Barman Buda, Baidhyanath Mahato, Shivaraj Gautam, Shyam Lal Chapagain, Hikmat Bahadur Shah, Hari Prasad Chaudhary, Krishna Singh Pariyar, Khanga Bahadur Buda, Kalu Ram Rana, Gambir Jung Karki, Tirtha Raj Bhusal, Bal Bahadur Kunwar, Bhagat Gyawali, Rudramani Sharma (Bhandari), Radhe Chandra Yadav, Ram Lakhan Mahato, Bishnu Bahadur Tamang, Beni Madhav Singh, Shiva Yadav, Shyam Sundar Gupta, Saiyat Meraj, Mohammad Shah, Hari Prasad Ramat, Hari Har Prasad Yadav and Triyogi Narayan Chaudhary.
Similarly the former National Assembly members not submitting their property details are Kapilwesor Lal Kayastha, Khagendra Raj Dhakal, Khem Narayan, Silip Kumar Shah, Nar Bahadur Gurung, Babu Ram Rana, Babu Ram Nalein, Rabindra Chakravarty, Sarada Pokhrel, Indra Limbu, Uddav Dev Bhatta, Durga Dutta Joshi, Dol Singh Thapa, Prem Raj Ang Demba, Bidur Prasad Paudel and Jagadish Shumsher JB Rana.
Assistant Ministers Min Bahadur Khatri and Suresh Chandra Yadav have also not submitted the forms.
Though the Commission had listed 36,000 individuals holding public posts who ought to be submitting the forms, only 24,000 have submitted the forms so far.