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The main opposition party, CPN (UML) has demanded execution of the US grant project Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to serve national interest, following its parliamentary endorsement. 

At a press meet organised to disclose the party's opinion on MCC here today, the UML said much attention had to be paid before signing the foreign assistance agreement but now efforts should be made for its implementation when its compact was endorsed. 

On the occasion, UML chair KP Sharma Oli said the MCC should be taken as a development project and urged the concerned side not to do politics creating differences and conflict on the agreement. It was wrong to ascend the cadres to fuel street-based protests, he added. 

Main opposition party leader Oli said the government should immediately go for fresh mandate and clarified that fresh discussions between NC and UML were held for safeguarding the Constitution. The former Prime Minister also stressed the need for collaboration between UML and Nepali Congress (NC) which have been fighting for democracy since long. 

He accused the efforts of cornering UML by not creating an environment conducive to participate in parliamentary process while endorsing MCC. 

Chairperson Oli commented that the interpretive declaration of the MCC presented in the House of Representatives (HoR) was merely a manifestation of deception. He further shared it was baseless to state that the MCC compact was part of the Indo Pacific Strategy (IPS). 

"The US has been clarifying that it was not part of the IPS. Now the ruling coalition also echoed the same. The interpretive declaration also noted the same rhetoric. Then why erstwhile Minster Pradeep Gyawali was accused of making MCC as part of IPS,” he questioned. RSS

CPN (Unified Socialist) party Chairman Madhav Kumar Nepal accused KP Oli and company of spreading rumours about the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) among the people.

Speaking at a press conference organised by the CPN (Unified Socialist) in the Capital on Tuesday, Chairman Nepal said that Oli has no concern for the nation and people.

“Oli and the company neither supported nor rejected the MCC. Oli and his party had taken head amany things about the MCC. He remained a mute spectator while endorsing the compact from the Parliament,” Nepal said, adding, “Our party was established in a legal way. That is why, no one can take action against us.”

“The ministers of KP Oli talked about the IPS. But, none of them protested against the MCC,” he said.

The main opposition CPN-UML accused the CPN (Maoist Centre) of endorsing the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to remain in power.

The party said so by organizing a press conference after the endorsement of the MCC on Tuesday.

“Some parties in the ruling coalition had been claiming that they would stand against the MCC, saying that it was not in the interest of the nation. But, at the end they stood in favour of the compact. The parties made the MCC a geopolitical issue,” UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said.

He said that a sensational decision was taken by keeping the largest party of the Parliament outside.

Leader Gyawali said that in the meantime rumours were also spread against the party.

Saying that the ruling coalition leaders have shown irresponsibility, he said, “The parties ratified the MCC just to fulfill their vested interest.”

The main opposition CPN-UML said that controversy started in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) just to remove the then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.

During a press conference organised to make public its opinion after the endorsement of the $500 million US grant compact from the Parliament, the party said that the controversy in the MCC was started with an objective to remove Oli from the then Nepali Communist Party.

UML Deputy General Secretary Pradeep Gyawali said that the interpretative declaration was issued just to lie to the people.