KATHMANDU, July 8: The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have continued boycotting the House of Representatives (HoR) session today, too, over the visit visa scam.
Once the session convened, lawmakers representing both political parties stood from their respective seats in a gesture of protest.
RSP and RPP lawmakers boycott parliament again over visit visa...
Once granted time to put views, RSP's Shobita Gautam accused the government of being indifference towards their frequent demands to establish a high level parliamentary committee or a high-level investigation commission to probe the matter.
"The RSP has long been demanding the formation of such body to investigate the alleged human trafficking in the name of visit visa," she said, adding that it is objectionable that a general administrative committee was formed under the leadership of 'unsuitable' figure to deal with the issue that is connected Nepal's image globally," she said.
Similarly, RPP's lawmaker Gyan Bahadur Shahi said though the party has long been speaking up against the visit visa camp, the government continued to ignore the party's concerns.
"We are protesting against the government itself, but our move is against the human trafficking. We want formation of a parliamentary committee to find out facts surrounding the matter," he said.
