By Our Reporter
After the public outrage that the lawmakers unlawfully received Dashain allowance, the parliamentary party of the main opposition Nepali Congress has decided to return the Dashain allowance provided to its lawmakers. The NC parliamentary party, writing a letter to the general secretary of the Federal Parliament Secretariat, asked to retrieve the allowance and deposit it in COVID-19 trust.
NC Parliamentary Party chief whip Bal Krishna Khand, in a statement, said that all NC lawmakers would return Rs. 4,320,810, which was sent as Dashain allowance to their bank accounts.
Khand said the amount would be deposited in COVID-10 Trust, a government-established fund, through the Federal Parliament Secretariat.
The statement read the government decision to provide allowance to lawmakers was not rational at this time of COVID-19 pandemic. NC’s decision promoted the government and the ruling Nepal Communist Party to deposit their Dashain allowance also in the same fund.
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