Kathmandu. Questions have been raised in Parliament regarding the appointment of the Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank. Criticism has increased that the government has been making appointments in a hurry in the setting of middlemen. Speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (Falgun 10), Opposition Leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said that the government ministers have not been able to make any appointments on their own in the past 8 months. Prachanda said, “‘I see my colleagues in the government now boasting a lot, saying that the government did this and that. I said it then, and I still emphasize it now, that I have not seen the ministers and the Prime Minister riding two-thirds of the government’s horse, that horse has been ridden by middlemen. I do not see you making the appointments, the settings you have been making, you have been doing it. That has been done by middlemen. I have seen it happening according to the decisions made by middlemen. I want to challenge you, tell me a single appointment and a single policy in the last eight months, which does not have a middleman behind it. Just one example will do. Your meetings, committees and … Continue reading Congress’s interest in governor appointment, Gagan Thapa tells Finance Minister – ‘We are closely watching the governor’s appointment’