Nepali Congress chief and opposition leader Sher Bahadur Deuba today denounced Nepal’s government led by Prime Minister KP Oli for “vitiating” the “environment of consensus” by recalling its envoy to India.
Participating in a discussion on the government’s policy document in the Parliament, Deuba hit out at the government for “vitiating the environment of consensus” after it recalled the ambassador to India Deep Kumar Upadhyaya, who is also a senior Nepali Congress (NC) leader.
The Oli government has sacked Upadhyaya for allegedly conspiring to topple the coalition government and for visiting western Nepal with Indian ambassador to Nepal Ranjit Rae.
Nepalese officials have accused Upadhyaya working “against national interest”.
Upadhyaya continues to stay put in his post in New Delhi, and has reportedly denied he colluded with India to topple the Oli dispensation back home.
The former prime minister Deuba said the biggest challenge Nepal faces today was the implementation of the budget.
“It would be ambitious to say that one would do so without forging consensus, which was unbelievable,” Deuba said adding that a “temporary” government bringing highly ambitious programmes was a mockery of the parliamentary system.
Deuba also denounced the government move to hold local body elections “in the present situation.”
“How appropriate is it for the government to say that it would hold the local body elections when the government has itself constituted a commission for delineating the border and number of local bodies and when the commission has not yet submitted its report,” Deuba wondered.
Conducting local body polls would not be possible without forging consensus among parties, he stressed.PTI