Kathmandu, Mar. 6: Speaking during the special hour at the House of Representatives today, chief whip of cpn-uml bharat Mohan Adhikari said that the high level committee formed under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister to conduct a probe into opposition parties’ complaints of extensive rigging in the third general elections and to submit its report along with suggestions on ways to control electoral rigging in the future had not yet shown any interest in submitting its report during the winter session of the parliament thus far.

The government should fulfil the pledges it made before the house and people, he stressed.

Growing corruption was eroding norms and values in the country and corruption today reportedly surpassed that of the Panchayat period, the member complained.

Now that a report of the joint investigation committee of both the houses on revenue leakage had been approved by the House there was no point in delaying its implementation,  he said.

The people had been extremely affected by price hike and the last special session of the parliament had also adopted a proposal along with a resolution to provide relief the adversely affected people, he noted, demanded what to know was being done about that.

Ram Bahadur Bista of Nepali Congress said, “The people today want peace and security more than development works and employment.”

Maoist were said to have destroyed a police office at Binayak in Achham district and abducted two police personnel but nothing was known as to what happened to other police personnel there, he said.

A banking office was reported to have been robbed, he said, and demanded to know how much money had been taken away from there.

Shifting of Binayak Police Post elsewhere was quite shameful, for police morale should not sag for lack of arms and ammunition; and both the ruling and opposition parties should unite on matter relating to peace, security, nationality and democracy, he said.

Hari Acharya of the Rastriya Janamorcha said that police lathicharged the demonstrators of the Nepal National Teachers Organisation who were demonstrating peacefully in front of the Ministry of Education. The just demands of the teachers be fulfilled and the House be informed of the criteria on which the posts of the teachers be fixed, he demanded.

Lilamani Pokhrel of the Samyukta Janamorcha alleged that the law and order situation in the country was critical and police had unleashed terror and set 200 houses on fire. He said that the government should be clear on whether the Maoists problem was a problem of terrorism or a political one.

Subhash Chandra Nembang of the cpn-uml drew the attention of the Speaker towards the government’s inability to present sufficient bills in the current winter session known as bills’ session and the registered two bills were not receiving due attention in the absence of the concerned Minister.

He also demanded to know the fact regarding a published news item saying that Nepal has agreed to allow the presence of Indian security personnel at the Tribhuvan International Airport and the reports on the hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane. He stressed that the misuse of the diplomatic passports be made public immediately.