{"id":28716,"date":"2025-08-12T17:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=28716"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:39:55","slug":"ramhari-khatiwada-resigns-as-state-affairs-committee-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ramhari-khatiwada-resigns-as-state-affairs-committee-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramhari Khatiwada Resigns as State Affairs Committee Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 12 :\u00a0 Ramhari Khatiwada has stepped down as chairperson of the House of Representatives\u2019 State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, following a parliamentary probe that found serious errors in the report of the Civil Service Bill passed by the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Khatiwada announced his resignation during Tuesday\u2019s House meeting, stating that he had always supported introducing a cooling-off period for government employees and would continue to hold that position in the future.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed the report on the bill was prepared against the committee\u2019s legislative intent, insisting the error did not originate from him or the committee. However, he admitted failing to thoroughly review the final draft was a mistake, attributing the lapse to his trust in staff.<\/p>\n<p>Alleging he had been a victim of \u201cmalicious politics,\u201d Khatiwada said the parliamentary investigation had not found him guilty. \u201cSince the word \u2018responsibility\u2019 has been used in the report, I accept my responsibility and gladly resign,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by thanking colleagues and supporters for their assistance during his tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 12 :\u00a0 Ramhari Khatiwada has stepped down as chairperson of the House of Representatives\u2019 State Affairs and Good Governance Committee, following a parliamentary probe that found serious errors in the report of the Civil Service Bill passed by the committee. Khatiwada announced his resignation during Tuesday\u2019s House meeting, stating that he had always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28718,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28716\/revisions\/28718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}