Prime Minister K. P. Bhattarai has reminded the Nepali Congress of the incident of 1961 (2017) B.S. after some NC leaders and some MPs began criticising some members of the government. At an interaction programme on Friday at the Godavari Resort, the place where NC president Koirala and Bhattarai had entered into an agreement, Bhattarai said that in 1961 also the reactionaries had also said the government had not worked.

(Then the Nepali Congress government led-by B.P. Koirala was ousted after one and half year of its formation and the panchayat system was ushered in the country). Somebody is trying to invite a similar situation, he said. The programme entitled ‘Parliamentary norm and values and the role of the parliamentarians’ was organised by Nepal Law Society.

Inaugurating the programme, the prime minister said even a 10-year period is not that long, and it is wrong to say this government has done nothing in such a short period. Saying the feud between the two leaders (himself and Koirala) led to the fall of the Nepali Congress majority government (in 1994), Bhattarai said the Nepali Congress must not let go this opportunity and the government should get a chance to work without hindrances.

Speaking at the same programme, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said the government has taken the parliament as a government department, a party with only five MPs can disrupt the whole parliamentary proceeding and the big parties become mute spectators.

Recently, the Nepal Sadhvabana Party with its five MPs, had stalled the House proceeding demanding the tabling of their bill on citizenship issue. “The government has not cooperated at all to run the parliament smoothly,” he said. (Nepal Samacharpatra, September 18, Saturday).