Kathmandu, Nepal: The Nepali Congress (NC), the main opposition party in the federal parliament, has demanded for amendment to the recently implemented civil codes and criminal codes to ensure constitutionally granted freedom of opinion and expression including the protection of professionals’ right.
NC has voiced for reforms and amendment to the Criminal Code just week after the code come into implementation.
The main opposition has raised the voice in the mean time when different organizations including the Federation of Nepalese Journalist (FNJ) has also voiced against of the civil codes and criminal codes fearing that some provision of the Criminal code could hamper the constitutionally granted freedom of opinion and expression.
The recently implemented civil codes and criminal codes can challenge not only the freedom of opinion and expression but also terrorized the professionals including doctors; NC spokesperson Bishwa Prakash Sharma said organizing a news conference at the party’s central office in Sanepa on Sunday.
NC is for revision and amendment to the codes through consultations with the concerned stakeholders, Sharma said adding that the government should not hesitate to amendment the code in case of necessary.
During the function he also criticized the government for failing to control the unjustifiable taxes imposed to the general public by the three tiers of government, heading towards the path of earning chief popularity in the pretext of nationalism, failing to institutionalize the federalism in a real sense and others.
