Seven-member committee in cards to probe ‘cooling-off period’ tampering

Kathmandu: The major political parties represented in the parliament have agreed to form a special parliamentary committee to probe into the tampering of the ‘cooling-off period’ in the Civil Service Bill.

Santosh Pariyar, Chief Whip of the Rastriya Swatantra Party, shared that an agreement was reached during a meeting at Speaker Devaraj Ghimire’s residence with the chief whips and whips of the five major political parties today.

The committee will comprise two members from the Nepali Congress and two from the CPN (UML), along with one member each from the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist Centre), the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP).

The committee will have a mandate to submit the probe report within 21 days of its formation. The Parliamentary Procedure Advisory Committee will finalize the names of members in the committee and present them during the finalisation of Representatives, he added.

Although the HoR State Affairs and Good Governance Committee had passed the Bill with the provision of a two-year cooling-off period, the specific proviso was tampered with and presented differently when it was enacted by the Lower House.

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