The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) has planned to write to the parliament secretariat asking for withdrawal of the controversial bill, upon Speaker Subas Nembang and lawmakers' request. As the bill proposes providing lavish facilities to the retired president, prime minister, ministers, speaker, and chief justice among other VIPs including security, people from various walks of life have criticized it saying facilities to former VIPS would add unnecessary financial burden to the state coffers."Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam assured me to withdraw the bill by writing an official letter to the parliament," Speaker Nembang told Republica on Wednesday. Nembang had asked the Home Minister Gautam, and Law Minister Narahari Acharya to withdraw the bill, as it seems irrelevant, when country is focusing on quake-ravaged reconstruction.
Subsequently, Nembang instructed the parliament secretariat not to start any process open the bill. "The parliament secretariat will do nothing to the bill, unless MoHA recalls it as Speaker already instructed the secretariat to halt the bill informing that Home Minister itself is preparing to recall it," said Bharat Gautam, Spokesperson of the secretariat.
Though the MoHa registered the same bill at parliament secretariat last year, the ministry had withdrawn and revised upon some of its provisions.
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