Pardafas Reporter
Nepal’s Minister for Finance Gyanendra Bahadur Karki and MCC Acting CEO Jonathan Nash sign agreement in the Treaty Room of the US Department of State, Washington, on Thursday, September 14, 2017.FILE PHOTO
Stakeholders and government authorities today argued that the ongling protests against the US government back MCC grant assistance is used as a political tool to create confusions among general people and get benifit from the chaos.
They claimed that spreading rumour against MCC grant assistance was a political dishonesty.
Speaking on the occasion, National Planning Commission (NPC) Vice Chairman Dr Bishwo Poudel said, "The protests subject to MCC grant assistance are normal. It is an open secret that the protests of the present time are aimed at getting political space.”
The NPC Vice-Chairman said the longstanding Nepal-US relations should not be destabilized.
Likewise, senior advocate Gandhi Pandit said US-Nepal diplomatic relations should not be weakened by spreading rumours on the general public.
Similarly, water resources expert Gyanendra Lal Pradhan and political analyst Arun Kumar Subedi said MCC grant should not be misinterpreted, adding that such misinterpretation was against the national interest.
On the occasion, Saroj Mishra, Bijaya Mishra, Prof Kapil Shrestha, Semanta Dahal, Hari Binod Adhikari, Prof Krishna Hachhethu and others expressed their opinions on the necessity and relevance of MCC for Nepal’s development.
