Kathmandu, Nov 14: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) lawmakers who are scheduled to embark on a visit to the People’s Republic of China have sit for a discussion with Party President Rabi Lamichhane today. The meeting taking place at the President’s residence is being attended by party General Secretary Bipin Kumar Acharya, party Chief Whip Kabindra Burlakoti and others.
A team of the RSP lawmakers will be visiting China from November 15 at an invitation of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Prior to this, the team called on Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Friday. The Prime Minister directed them to focus on further strengthening Nepal-China relations during the visit. During the visit, bilateral discussions will be held on multidimensional aspects including economic development, public service delivery, institutional capacity enhancement and political leadership by exchanging mutual experiences.
The RSP expects that the lawmakers’ visit will provide a significant opportunity to further enhancing Nepal-China mutual understanding and scale up political dialogue and development collaboration, according to RSP Spokesperson Jagadish Kharel. General Secretary Acharya will be leading the delegation comprising Ganesh Parajuli, Hari Dhakal, Kabindra Burlakoti, Leema Adhikari, Samiksha Baskota, Sagar Dhakal, Sushant Vaidik, Rima Bishwakarma, Ramesh Kumar Sapkota, Dr Dhananjaya Regmi, Gajala Shamim Mikrani, Shreeram Neupane, Dr Ram Lama, Punam Kumari Agrawal, Dr Anand Bahadur Chand, Dr Sujata Tamang, Pushpa Kumar Chaudhary, Arbind Shah and Ratna Thapa.
Meanwhile, RSP lawmaker Ashika Tamang raises a serious question on the funding of the visit of lawmakers to China. In her Facebook post, she raises such question. How many times a lawmaker can visit abroad in the expense of State? She asked. Even other lawmakers of own party are unknown about such visit. She claimed. Why lawmakers go to other countries? What is the benefits of such visit? Visit for the sake of tiktok posts should not be promoted. She has commented.
