Whip system should be modified to make our parliament effective

Only around 15 percent of our lawmakers thoroughly study bills and proposals. The rest don’t care what is in the bills.

The inefficiency of Nepal’s federal parliament has again been exposed after the plenary of the House of Representatives was found to have endorsed a bill whose provisions were tampered with—but apparently none of our lawmakers noticed. A malafide intent in the bill’s preparation was also evident. The issue has rocked the parliament and shocked experts of parliamentary practices. The Post ’s Thira Lal Bhusal sat down with Manohar Bhattarai, former general secretary of the federal parliament, for insights into why such cases happen and how they can be prevented.