Kathmandu, June 24: Some MPs at the House of Representatives today accused the official media of not properly covering the news of parliamentary proceedings, particularly the speeches of the MPs.

CPN-UML’s Prem Bahadur Singh complained that official media including the Gorkhapatra reported that he raised the issue of food crisis in Kailali. Actually he had raised the issue of food crisis in Kalikot, Bajhang, Bajura, Mugu, Humla and other hailstone affected districts, Mr Singh said.

NC’s Shiva Raj Joshi (Dailekh) stressed the need for the Ministry of Information and Communications to see to it that RSS, NTV, Radio and other official media properly cover the parliament news.

Jagannath Khatiwada of CPN-UML accused the official media of not giving full coverage to the speeches of MPs at parliament. Since parliament is the only forum where MPs can raise the issues of their constituencies, the media must report what they say.