Kathmandu, July 5: The major political parties representing on the parliament have agreed to form a special parliamentary committee to probe into the tampering of ‘cooling-off period’ in the Federal Civil Service Bill.
Santosh Pariyar, Chief Whip of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, shared an agreement was reached during a meeting at Speaker Devaraj Ghimire’s residence with the chief whips and whips of the five major political parties today.
The committee will comprise two members from the Nepali Congress and two from the CPN (UML), along with one member each from the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist Centre), the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP).
The committee will have a mandate to submit the probe report within 21 days of its formation. The Parliamentary Procedure Advisory Committee will finalize the names of members in the committee and present them during the House of Representatives session, he added.
Although the HoR State Affairs and Good Governance Committee had passed the Bill with the provision of a two-year cooling-off period, the specific proviso was found tampered and presented differently when it was enacted by the Lower House.
