Kathmandu, June 19: Members of the National Assembly (NA), the upper house of the Federal Parliament, have demanded arrangements for food, shelter and medical treatment for the homeless squatters who were removed from riverbanks including the Bagmati River last April.
During the zero hour of today’s NA meeting, Gomadevi Timalsina claimed that the homeless kept in the ‘holding centre’ did not even get medicine and water.
Madan Kumari Shah (Garima) said that no proper arrangements have been made for squatters even after two months.
Jayantidevi Rai demanded that arrangements be made to provide justice to victims of domestic violence.
Durga Gurung complained that the policies and programmes coming from the local level were not included in the budget, but instead were considered depending on political proximity.
Nara Bahadur Bista expressed his objection over calling officials of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority to the Prime Minister’s office and making them work under pressure for nine hours last Monday.
Narayan Datta Mishra mentioned that even though large settlements were managed for resettling the freed Kamaiya, there were problems because there were no job opportunities for them.
Bhuvan Sunar said there has been no legal action against the injustices happening to the Dalit community, including observing the death rituals of his daughter who is alive and kicking, and who was entering inro an inter-caste marriage in Bardiya.
Yuvraj Sharma was curious about what was being done regarding the closed tea industry while Rajendra Laxmi Gaire drew the government’s attention to the minister’s alleged derogatory statements about construction entrepreneurs.
