Kathmandu, May 13: The meetings of
the Nepali Congress (NC) Parliamentary Party and the Parliamentary Party
Working Committee scheduled for today have been postponed.
NC Chief Whip Ramesh Lekhak said
that the meeting of the Working Committee scheduled for 1.0pm and the meeting
of the Parliamentary Party slated for 2.00 pm today has been postponed for 9.00
am on May 14.
He said that the meetings called
for discussing the latest political developments and contemporary issues,
including the formation of a parliamentary investigation committee on the
embezzlements of the cooperatives' funds, has been deferred by a day for
additional preparations.
"The budget session of the
parliament has started. The government is presenting its policies and programmes
tomorrow alone, but no consensus has been reached till this hour regarding
formation of the parliamentary investigation committee, the topic that we have
been raising," he said, adding that they have postponed the meetings for
tomorrow thinking it would be appropriate to devise the required strategy
discussing the matter tomorrow on the basis of how the developments on the
topic play out throughout the day today.
NC has been taking a stance of not
allowing the parliament proceedings to move ahead until the parliamentary probe
committee is constituted to look into the cooperatives fraud scam.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Pushpa
Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' had held talks with the NC leaders regarding removing
the obstruction in parliament. (RSS)