Surkhet. A demonstration was held outside the provincial assembly demanding the resignation of Karnali Chief Minister Jeevan Bahadur Shahi.
CPN-Maoist leader and former Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Naresh Bhandari has protested in front of the state assembly saying that the government is reluctant to pass the non-government bill registered in the state assembly.
They demanded the passage of the Sinja Civilization Preservation and Development Bill, the Mountain Science and Technology University Bill and the Karnali Innovation, Exploration and Innovation Bill registered in the state assembly. The government itself had registered the ‘Bill to make provision for Mountain Science and Technology University, 2077 BS’ in the Provincial Assembly Secretariat on November 9, 2008. A Social Development Committee has been sent to this House for discussion.
The ‘Sinja Civilization Preservation and Development Bill, 2078’ registered in the Provincial Assembly Secretariat on September 26, 2078 BS and the Karnali Innovation, Exploration and Innovation Foundation Bill, 2078 BS registered in the Provincial Assembly Secretariat are both non-government bills.
Bhandari started the agitation by forming a society concerned with the bill after the government tried to withdraw the three bills which were in the final stage of being passed in the state assembly.