KATHMANDU, June 19: CPN-UML lawmaker Pradeep Gyawali has stressed the need to investigate the draft agreement related to the State Partnership Program (SPP).
Speaking at a meeting of the International Relations Committee under the House of Representatives on Sunday, lawmaker Gyawali said that the issue of the agreement is a serious concern and that it is necessary to see how it reached the state bodies. He said that the issue of the agreement should be explored in three phases– namely, the phase of correspondence from 2015 to 2019, the phase studied by the government in 2019 and the phase till the current draft is out– to study this controversial program.
"Such a serious proposal is being deemed as useless. Some even said it was a fake document. Where did this serious question come from? How did it reach the important bodies of the state? Needless to say, I would say. Whose hand did it reach and was passed through?,” he asked. “If the Parliament had not taken the information in time, if the parties had not taken the information in time, it would have gone a long way. So its origin must be found. We need to find out where the last document came from.”
Gyawali, who is also a former foreign minister, said that the judiciary was dragged into controversy by impeachment of Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana out of personal anger. He said that state institutions would not be strengthened in this way even if there is personal complacency by filing impeachment.
Gyawali also said that an attempt was made to drag the Nepal Army into controversy. He expressed concern that the army was being weakened by dragging it into the controversy.