Nepali Congress General Secretary Gangan Kumar Thapa has said that it was legally and constitutionally wrong to issue an ordinance to grant amnesty to Resham Chaudhary, who is serving a life term in connection to the Tikapur carnage of August 2015. He expressed his dissatisfaction for bringing the ordinance without holding discussions within the party. Taking to Twitter on Monday, the former Health Minister said, “This ordinance is legally, politically and morally wrong. This is against the parliamentary system. The government should withdraw the ordinance at the earliest.”

Leader Thapa said that the party cannot bear the burden of the wrong decision made by the government.

“This is a care taker government. It cannot take decisions of far-reaching importance,” he said. The government has no legal and constitutional rights to issue the ordinance, Thapa added. He further went on to say that the government cannot withdraw the cases that are sub-judice in the court. Saying that the executive has intervened in the jurisdiction of the court and Parliament, Thapa, who was elected as a member of the House of Representatives from the recently held election, said that the government should withdraw the ordinance immediately. Chaudhary has been doing time in the central jail for masterminding the carnage at Tikapur, Kailali, which took the lives of eight people including a toddler in August 2015. A Cabinet meeting held on Sunday had decided to issue an ordinance to grant amnesty to anyone convicted of heinous crimes. Earlier today, another party General Secretary Bishwo Prakash Sharma had also objected to the government decision to bring the ordinance.