Sept. 30
Janata Samajbadi Party’s
Federal Council Chairman and former Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai said
that Nepal should ratify the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s grant project.
“Nepal needs to ratify
the United States’ grant support project to assist the nation in its drive to
reduce poverty and unemployment and achieve prosperity,” he said while
addressing Organisation Strengthening and Peoples’ Awareness Campaign of the
party in Lamjung on Thursday.
According to him, the
country should accept foreign cooperation that is not against national interest
and prestige.
“Nepal cannot remain a
poor nation forever, and we need foreign support to achieve prosperity. We
should approve the MCC grant by forging a national consensus,” he said.
Dr. Bhattarai stated
that the MCC was just a grant support programme and such agreements were signed
with many countries in the past. However, he maintained that the project had a
provision of ratifying it with majority in the parliament but as per Nepal’s Constitution,
this was not needed.
He said that as his
party alone couldn’t make a decision on the issue of national debate and
interest, this matter should be resolved with national consensus.
Published in The Rising Nepal on 1 October 2021.
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