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The Madhes Province government is unveiling its policies and programs for the fiscal year 2023/24 on Tuesday. Province Chief Hari Shankar Mishra is presenting the policies and programs in the meeting of the Province Assembly at 3 pm today, Ranjit Kumar Yadav, Secretary at Province Assembly Secretariat, said. The government led by Chief Minister Saroj Kumar Yadav is bringing forth the programs aiming at sustainable, broad based and inclusive economic growth. The government was formed under Yadav's leadership on January 23.  

The main opposition CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has said that the Citizenship Bill should be tabled in Parliament. Saying that the Citizenship Bill is a question of Parliament’s rights, the former Prime Minister, while speaking at a Parliament meeting on Monday, said that the Citizenship Bill should be tabled in the Parliament anyhow. “This bill should be brought to the House again. Anyhow, this should be brought to the Parliament. The bill should be discussed in the Parliament. This is a new Parliament,” he said, adding, “Will the President ever bring a bill at the request of the Cabinet? The government should present the draft in the House.” “The bill will be stopped if the law is not formulated. It should be brought to the Parliament again for discussion,” he said.  

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal claimed that the Constitution has come into track by authenticating the Citizenship Bill. The Prime Minister was responding to the questions floated by lawmakers in the Parliament on Monday. He said that the bill was sent to the President for authentication by completing all the due process. Prime Minister Dahal, who is also the Chairman of the CPN (Maoist Center), said that the government requested for the authentication of the Citizenship Bill which was endorsed by both the Houses keeping in mind the interests of the people. He opined that the bill sent by both Houses in a legal way should not be rejected by another Parliament. Similarly, the Prime Minister said that various issues were discussed during his recent visit to India, underlining that the government is serious about national interest and sovereignty. He said that both sides should sit for talks to resolve the Nepal-India border issues.

Rastriya Swatantra Party President Rabi Lamichhane has said that the Citizenship Bill reached the court due to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Speaking at a Parliament meeting on Monday, Lamichhane said that the Citizenship Bill was certified in an illegal way. President Ram Chandra Paudel authenticated the controversial Citizenship Bill on May 31. On June 1, senior advocate Surendra Bhandari and advocate Bal Krishna Neupane moved the Supreme Court against the authentication of the bill. Hearing the writ petitions on Sunday, a single bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Sharma issued a short-term order directing the government not to implement the Citizenship Bill certified by President Paudel. The Citizenship Act has already been published in the Nepal gazette. On August 15, 2022, President Bidya Devi Bhandari had returned this very Bill to the House of Representatives for a review, in accordance with a constitutional provision, 15 days after its submission for authentication after endorsement from the House of Representatives and the National Assembly on July 22 and July 28, respectively.