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Federal Parliamentary Rules And Transporters’ Syndicates
Federal Parliamentary Rules And Transporters’ Syndicates
KTM Metro Reporter
May 7, 2018
Kathmandu: The federal parliament rules submitted to the Federal House of Representatives on May 6, 2018 have made the lawmakers immune from raping, selling red special passports, murdering anybody to name a few crimes any lawmakers could committed but they would not be suspended because they were different from the common folks and they needed a special privilege.
Speaking to the anchor of the Radio Nepal morning program called “antar-sambad” on May 6, 2018, Chairman of the federal parliamentary rules drafting committee Krishna Bhakta Pokarel has said that the opposition lawmakers particularly the NC lawmakers have vehemently opposed to include the word “suspension of lawmakers” whenever they committed a crime; so the committee had to delete those words that had been included in the previous parliamentary rules; however, any lawmakers would immediately lose all the benefits and the honor that the position would bring them.
The local newspaper editorials have strongly opposed the deletion of the suspension of the lawmakers who commit the crime. They said that nobody needed to escape from the crimes. Lawmakers are not above the law and they should not commit crimes with impunity. The public voice has been strong against making the lawmakers immune from the crimes.
Transporters’ syndicates have been practically broken down after the one-day strike they launched on Friday, May 4, 2018. The Home Minister came out strongly against all those leaders and protestors, and arrested them following the “Essential Services Operation Act,” which could put them behind bar for a year.
First the Cabinet has decided that the public transportation is an essential service and fall under the “Essential Services Operation Act.” Then, the Act became the tool for Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ to arrest the leaders of the syndicates involved in stopping the public transport in protest, and forced them to sign a paper never stopping the public transport in protest, and never engaging in the syndicate.
Thus, the government has broken the back of the transporters’ syndicates and they would be gone forever for the benefits of the commuters and for the government, too, as they would be caught in the tax net and would bring additional revenue to the government in the form of income tax.
On Friday, the common folks have taken a strong opposition to the transporters’ strike; and folks helped each other to transport and reach the respective destinations. So, the transporters’ strike could not hit hard on the common folks, and they capitulated, and withdrew their protest program. Other companies out of the syndicates had run their buses and three wheelers regularly. Probably, they must have made windfall profits after having so many commuters waiting for them.
This has been the first battle the Oli government has won against the syndicates. Prime Minister KP Oli said that the government would break up one syndicate after another, and force the people in the public services compete with each other so that common folks would have the better services at the least cost.
