Kathmandu, December 25
The Parliament Secretariat says Nepali Congress lawmaker Tek Bahadur Gurung, newly elected House of Representatives, has been barred from carrying out their parliamentary duties although he was administered the oath of office last week.
The secretariat’s spokesperson Roj Nath Pandey says he has been suspended from their parliamentary duties following letters from the Nepal Police and Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority.
A corruption case against former minister Gurung is underway.
Meanwhile, Pandey says the lawmaker was included in the oath ceremony last week as no agency had written to the secretariat about his disqualification to become a lawmaker.
Correction: This news has been corrected as the previous version said along with him, CPN-UML’s Laxmi Mahato Koiri is also suspended. The error is regretted.
