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Code Of Conduct For Nepalese Lawmakers
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 16, 2011: at the meeting of the Constitutional Committee yesterday, one of the lawmakers called Bishwendra Paswan has shown his character disregarding the call of the Chairman of the committee to be calm and rather torn off the agenda of the meeting and his shirt telling the Chairman to shoot him if he could. It is not the first time he has done such things and he is not alone to do so, too.
In the past, he had thrown a chair from one of the windows of the meeting hall showing his displeasure but nothing has been done against such erratic behaviors of the lawmaker; so, he has been encouraged to demonstrate his displeasure violently rather than calmly and legally.
Concerning the tearing off documents, Nepali Congress cadre and former Minister for Energy Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat had done so because the decision of the meeting had gone against his will and his party’s line. Such violence behavior has been plaguing the Nepalese lawmakers.
In addition, some lawmakers have sold their privileged passports and others have hooked the power line illegally. They have been at the Special Court. But that is not enough.
The Special Court sent two lawmakers such as Gayatri Shah and B.P. Yadav to jail yesterday after they could not pay the bail amount Rs 1.5 million each. The Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has charged them with selling their privileged passports at handsome amounts.
So, the current government needs to formulate the code of conduct for the lawmakers making them responsible for any illegal acts and violence at the parliament or on the streets and making them liable for terminating their positions and never making them eligible for any elected or unelected public positions in the future otherwise half of the lawmakers will be criminals, as in the neighboring country.
Follow the example of the New York Police arresting the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the Kennedy Airport a few minutes before taking off the Air France plane for the reported sexual assault on the maid at the Midtown Manhattan hotel he had stayed on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
