UCPN Maoist have obstructed the parliament from endorsing this years budget. The Maoist obstructed the parliamentary procedures by surrounding the rostrum. They dumped the consensus that they had reached with Nepali Congress and CPN UML for presenting the budget claiming that they had agreed to allow the government to present a workable budget and not a full fledged fiscal budget. The Maoists have claimed that the government was presenting a full budget by going against the agreement reached among the three parties.
However Nepali Congress and CPN UML has criticized the Maoist for back stabbing the consensus reached among them for presenting a full fiscal budget. After the conditions became tense in the parliament, the Speaker has called another parliament session on December 2.
The Maoist lawmakers breached their code of conduct in the parliament by vandalizing the parliament along with manhandling Finance Minister Surendra Pandey claimed NC lawmaker Chandra Manmohan Bhattarai. Bhattarai claimed that the Maoist lawmakers not only manhandled Minister Pandey but also snathched away the budget briefcase that he was carrying.
Lawmaker of Nepal Parivar Dal Eknath Dhakal while condemning the attack on finance minister has called on conducting an inquiry into the incident and to punish those involved in it। He accused Speaker Nembang of not recruiting discipline in charges for maintaining law and order in the house। click here for rest story
The government had decided to present bring the budget through ordinance after the Maoist prevented Finance Minister Surendra Pandey from presenting the budget in the House session on Friday. Following the incident Speaker Subas Nembang adjourned the House session till Dec. 2.
A cabinet meeting on Friday midnight has decided to present the budget through ordinance. The decision was taken after the main opposition Maoist lawmakers obstructed the budget presentation by picketing around the rostrum. The Maoist lawmakers attacked Minister Pandey, snatched his briefcase and tore up copies of the budget speech.
Apart from Maoists, all parties representing in the parliament condemned the UCPN (Maoist) move terming it an attack on democracy and the parliamentary system. Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party leader Ram Chandra Poudel termed the Maoist obstruction a "guerilla attack" aimed at harming the parliamentary system.
CPN-UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal while condemning the Maoist move stated that the peace process and constitution drafting cannot reach a logical conclusion unless they transformed themselves.
While claiming that the Maoist had broken their promise of acting as benelovent opposition in the parliament, Minister Pandey termed the Maoist action as "barbarian."
However Maoist Vice Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha claimed that his party members action was peaceful and in accordance to parliamentary norms for registering their objection to the budget presentation.
The Speaker condemned the Maoist act and assured that the House would take action against the guilty। "This incident is a disappointing one in Nepal's parliament history. We will take action against the guilty as per parliamentary regulations," he added.