Members of the parliament have demanded Home Minister KP Situala’s resignation over the deteriorating internal security.

Speaking at Sunday’s sitting of the House of Representatives, MPs pointed out that the local administration has been losing its grip by the day and has failed to quell criminal elements.

CPN (UML) MP Pradeep Nepal said during the Special Hour that as the Home Minister had failed to run administration efficiently, he should immediately quit his post “in order to the save the administration as well as his own skin”.

He also drew the attention of the Home Minister to the abduction of an eight-year-old from Koteshwor, Kathmandu, whose whereabouts remain unknown for days even as three suspects have been taken into custody.

Nepal also said the Prime Minister should quit the defence portfolio as his health was not supporting him. The government, he said, was lacking in commitment to form an interim legislative by implementing the interim constitution.

Likewise, chairman of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and MP Nayaran Man Bijukchhe took the Home Ministry to task for not showing concern towards the abduction of the child from Koteshwor.

UML MP Raghuji Pant said the Home Minister should resign on moral grounds, as his administration is proving weaker. He also demanded that those who attacked the Dalits for trying to enter into a temple in Silgadhi, Doti district, be punished.

Other MPs also noted that Dalits in Doti were fleeing en masse out of fear after attack on them by ‘upper caste’ extremists on Sunday. They demanded that the victims of Silgadhi incident be compensated and their security be guaranteed.

MP Ram Kumar Choudhary said the government should start restoring the police posts in villages, which were removed during the conflict, in order to check robbers coming from across the border in Terai districts.