18 Chait, Kathmandu. Prime Minister Balen Shah met directly elected MPs from Madhesh province.

Balen, who has been meeting directly elected MPs according to the state, met MPs of Madhesh province on Wednesday.

All MPs except Matrika Yadav from Madhesh were present in Wednesday’s meeting. As 30 MPs were present, one was elected from Congress and all others from RSVP.

All the MPs had reached a little earlier in the discussion called at 12 o’clock. The meeting, which was called to discuss the work that can be done in the short term before the budget, was held from 12 noon to 3 pm.

At the beginning of the meeting, Asim Shah of the Prime Minister’s Office gave a short briefing on the purpose of the discussion. Then Prime Minister Balen Shah entered the meeting at the scheduled time. Balen said to the parliamentarians, “What are the urgent and urgent tasks that can be done in the short term before the budget?”

According to the parliamentarians who participated in the discussion, after Balen told the parliamentarians about one and a half minutes before the budget that he was trying to understand the issues that should be included in it, the parliamentarians started to make their statements one by one.

The parliamentarians participating in the discussion spoke in turn about the problems of their constituencies and Madhesh province as a whole.

The main issues repeatedly raised by most of the parliamentarians were maintaining good governance, controlling corruption, building infrastructure such as roads and bridges, protecting dams, meter badge problems and re-opening small customs (small customs) which were closed during the Covid period and border management.

The MPs of Madhesh raised the issue of the meter-bagging victims, Ailani land and temple-related land. Also, the issue of postal highway related to development and construction was also raised in the discussion. The sufferings of citizens in offices like CDIO, Malpot, and the demand to investigate large corruption files at the provincial level were also raised in the meeting.

There was no question and answer session when the MP was present. Everyone had their say. The Prime Minister’s Secretariat took note of this.

All MPs spoke for two to five minutes. After everyone made their demands, Prime Minister Balen Shah gave a short speech at the end.

Stating that the secretariat has taken note of the matters put forward by all the parliamentarians, he said, ‘We will try to solve the issues according to the responsibility of the ministry and we will move forward with the works that can be done in a short period of time’.

And the three-hour meeting ended.

A member of parliament who participated in the discussion said that Balen, who listened a lot throughout the meeting, only spoke for five minutes at the beginning and at the end.

He said, ‘He just listened. Secretariat noted. He spoke little formally at the beginning and at the end. Many of the issues raised by us were repeated. He also asked us to submit the necessary documents to the secretariat regarding the demands raised by us.’

Earlier, Prime Minister Balen has already met directly elected MPs from Koshi, Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces.