The Special Investigation Committee of the House of Representatives is going to take a statement from Janardan Sharma, who resigned after it was revealed that unauthorized persons were involved in the budget preparation.

The parliamentary special committee formed to investigate the involvement of unauthorized persons in budget preparation has already taken statements from 10 officials under the Ministry of Finance. During the statement, the officials of the ministry has denied that unauthorized persons had entered during the budget preparation.

Before the statement, the committee requested to provide the CCTV footage , but the Ministry of Finance did not provided the footage saying that, the footage will remain only for 13 days and the others will be deleted automatically.
Amid various discussions and debates that the CCTV footage may have been deleted to destroy the evidence, the investigation committee is going to send the CCTV footage to the forensic lab under the Nepal Police to recover it. However, the police said whether the CCTV footage can be recovered or not depends on the condition of the hard disks.

Amid all these incidents, the investigation committee will take a statement from Janardan Sharma today. According to the course of events, the committee has not been able to gather any such concrete evidence against Sharma even if the statement taken with the officials of the Ministry of Finance is to be considered as the basis. However, what Sharma will say in today’s statement has become a matter of interest.

Regarding the recall of Finance Minister Jarnadan Sharma Internal discussions have started within the CPN-Maoist center.

Representatives of the Maoist center are now engaged in internal discussions on the issue of recalling Finance Minister Sharma, who has been repeatedly dragged into controversy. It has been learned that the issue has been discussed for more than two hours after Chairman Prachanda called Finance Minister Sharma to his private residence Khumaltar after the UCPN (Maoist) was dragged into a controversy over the issue of action of the Finance Minister.

Removal of sharma was demanded earlier too, who has been repeatedly criticized for his role in the governor’s suspension and for his controversial remarks. However, after the government being criticized for the budget,now internal discussions have started for sharma’s removal.