Consensus not forged on Medical Education Bill

Kathmandu-Today’s meeting of the House of Representatives (HoR) has been postponed for a week after both the ruling party and the major opposition party failed to forge consensus on the disputed Medical Education Bill. 
The major opposition party-Nepali Congress (NC) obstructed the ruling party-CPN to present the Medical Education Bill in the HoR meeting, expressing its qualm over it. 
NC states that the Medical Education Bill presented by the CPN was not in line with the one issued during the NC-led government. CPN, however, has been claiming the Bill they were going to present has incorporated the recommendations furnished by a special taskforce led by Kedar Bhakta Mathema. 
There was no agenda to present the Medical Education Bill-2075 in today’s meeting of the HoR. There was an agenda to present Insurance Bill, 2075 by Minister for Finance Dr Yubawaj Khatiwada in the meeting. Minister for Education and Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokharel said that the Medical Education Bill would not be revoked and efforts to forge consensus on the same would be continued. 
Today’s HoR meeting was postponed for a week through a notice. The HoR will meet next at 1:00 pm on July 27. 
NC should not politicize Dr KC’s case: leader Nepal 
Meanwhile, CPN leader and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has said that the Nepali Congress should not politicize Dr Govinda KC’s case. 
Dr KC has been staging hunger strike in Jumla for 20 days demanding reforms in the health and medical education in the country. 
Leader Nepal, while emerging out of parliament building, voiced that the genuine demands of protesting Dr KC should be addressed and the anomalies and vices prevailing in the health and medical education sector should be ended. 
Similarly, CPN lawmaker Krishna Bhakta Pokharel argued that the NC should honour the sovereign parliament and it should allow the government to present Medical Education Bill.