Political parties should not patronize meter badge

KATHMANDU: CPN-UML leader Dr. Bimala Rai Paudyal, who is also a member of the National Assembly, has requested the political parties not to protect the meter-baggers.

Speaking at the National Assembly meeting on Thursday, National Assembly member Dr. Paudyal said that the victims said that the political party workers are protecting the meters and asked them not to protect them in that way.

She said that the parties should talk about whether the party workers protected the meter bags or not.

Similarly, she has expressed her displeasure that the meter badge victims were not allowed to sit in the open forum.

She said in the meeting: They were not allowed to sit on the open stage. Khulla Manch is the only one in Kathmandu. Madhesi women coming from Madhesh are not allowed to set foot there. We have heard that the government has formed a working group. What the working group is doing, keeping this matter as a top priority, the law should be amended from where, the law should be amended. In my opinion, the constitution does not recognize the usury meter. The economy does not recognize it. Even the law does not recognize it. Where did the unknown meter bag come from? Why are we formalizing it? I don’t know. If there is no law, it should be brought. Had to bring it immediately. When we went yesterday, what did the women there say, they are party workers, party leaders, they are CDO, Do you know the police so we get justice? That is the question. Are we protecting party workers? The parties had to speak. This is a challenge for all political parties. All the political parties did not allow such things to happen from their own parties, from their supporters, from their voters whom they protected. The political parties had to do that.’