Secretariat member of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) Ishwore Pokharel has said senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal crossed the line while pummeling the government in the parliament.
Starting with a Nepali song calling the boatman to prevent the country from drowning on the last day of the budget session of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Thursday, third-ranked leader Nepal had pointed that the government has failed on the issues from punishing rapists to good governance.
"He suddenly crossed the line and spoke. I don't understand how the situation of him speaking in that manner arose," Pokharel told Setopati on Wednesday.
"Everyone should be allowed to voice one's opinion. It should not be taken otherwise. But a responsible leader must know where, how and when to voice one's opinion," Pokharel, the acting prime minister in absence of PM KP Sharma Oli who left for America before Nepal spoke, stated.
Pokahrel pointed how deputy parliamentary party leader of the main opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, speaking after Nepal, pointed Nepal has already spoke about the things he wanted to say. "I was present in the parliament that day. Gachchhadar repeated more than five times that ruling party leader has already mentioned the things he wanted to speak about, and done even the opposition's works," he pointed. "How did that sound? How did that look? I am not able to comprehend."
"The leaders who are at the party's top-level mechanism that steers the government should speak and discuss there. What Madhav Nepal did ill behoves him," he stressed.
Nepal convened a meeting of standing committee members the next day after the fireworks in the parliament and expressed displeasure over appointment of provincial chiefs and chairmen while he was abroad. CPN leaders say Nepal pointed during the meeting how the nine-member secretariat is bypassing the standing committee and taking decisions that the standing committee should take.
Pokharel also took exception to that. "He is a senior leader even in the secretariat which is the core team of the party's leadership. I am also in the secretariat but questions have not been raised with such gravity there. The problems have been pointed mildly there," he claimed.
"He was at the forefront while passing the party statute and regulations. We leaders do not speak at other times and speak only when we ourselves are affected."
