Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula (File Photo)
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula has said that the government is serious about resolving the citizenship issue and assured parliamentarians that the government would come up with an appropriate way to resolve citizenship problems.

Speaking at the Sunday’s session of the parliament, the Home Minister said that the government is ready to adopt all necessary measures with consensus among all political parties to ensure citizenship for every Nepali.

“We need to do extensive homework and make proper arrangements to attain the goal,” the Home Minister said.

Sitaula was responding to concerns raised by MPs about citizenship problems in the Terai belt of the country. A Nepali Congress MP had tabled a motion of urgent public importance, drawing the government’s attention to the need to settle the problem before the nation opts for constituent assembly elections.

Dozens of lawmakers, mostly from Terai region, suggested that the government base its decision on past reports of Dhanapati Upadhyay Commission and Mahantha Thakur Commission.

They also demanded that the government set up teams to distribute citizenship papers in villages.