Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that the House proceeding would be made smooth through the medium of dialogue and consensus.
In his address to the nation on Friday after completing six months of the formation of a five-party coalition government under his leadership, Prime Minister Deuba reiterated his stance to end prevailing deadlock in the parliament through dialogue and consensus among all political parties representing the parliament and bring contentious issues to conclusion. The government has been performing based on the common minimum programme of coalition force, he said, adding the government has to shoulder up the responsibility of conducting elections of three levels in a year.
“There is a responsibility on the government to complete elections of all three tiers within a year. I urge all the concerned sides to complete preparatory tasks related to the elections”. The Prime Minister said the government has placed high priority to the implementation of the constitution, guaranteeing rule of law and good governance, completing backlog of comprehensive peace accord and implementing past agreements made with different sides to conclude the peace process, addressing the issue of citizenship on consensus among the political parties, implementing federalism and enabling provincial and local level governments.
Prime Minister Deuba further shared that his government has laid emphasis on enhancing judicious economic development to prepare the foundation for socio-economic transformation, promoting production-oriented economy, boosting up export of goods by utilizing domestic raw materials and labour, improving supply management, controlling inflation and carrying out probe, investigation and follow-up of corruption cases.
Noting that Nepal is advancing to a process to graduate to a developing nation from the status of Least Development Country through first generation economic and administrative reform that was initiated with economic liberalization and privatization, he said, “Our goal is to reach to the level of a developed country by attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a short span of time. In reaching to the elevated level, the government would address the challenges and bottlenecks surfaced in the shared journey and carry out second generation of economic and governance reform by utilizing the opportunities received”.
The head of the government went on saying that the implementation of the constitution, economic prosperity, development and good governance would be put in the centre while framing plans for reform. Prime Minister Deuba noted that a pressing time has come in to continue economic and social activities in collaboration among different actors and sector by stemming recurring risks of third wave of the coronavirus on the lives of the citizens.
