A Parliamentary Party meeting of the Nepali Congress concluded that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) should be endorsed from the Parliament.

The meeting was held at the Lhotse Hall of the Constituent Assembly building.

Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President and Parliamentary Party leader Sher Bahadur Deuba said that the MCC should be ratified at any cost.

Addressing the meeting, he said, “MCC is a development project. Rumours should not be spread against the MCC. It should be passed,”

During a meeting held with CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairman Madhav Nepal this morning and opined that the MCC should be tabled in the meeting of the House of Representatives scheduled for tomorrow. Dahal and Nepal have agreed on his opinion.

Nepali Congress another leader Shashanka Koirala also said that the MCC should be endorsed from the Parliament at the earliest.

“All the lawmakers are for endorsing the MCC,” he said.

Earlier this morning, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Dilendra Prasad Badu said that the MCC will be tabled in the Parliament tomorrow.

He said that former Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat briefed the lawmakers during the meeting of the Parliamentary Party about the MCC. 

“Most probably, the MCC will be tabled in the Parliament tomorrow,” Minister Badu said.

The United States has given the government of Nepal a deadline of February 28 for the parliamentary ratification of the MCC.