The Nepali Congress leaders have opposed the government’s move saying that the government is going to distribute relief to unqualified fighters after 18 years of the peace process.

They said that the government’s decision to distribute large sums of money to unqualified fighters is wrong at a time when the transitional justice bill is under consideration and the country is having a serious economic crisis.” Instead of all this, the focus should be on the speedy completion of transitional justice by making a victim-friendly law,” they said.

The leader of the Nepali Congress, Shekhar Koirala, has said that it is not acceptable to distribute money in the name of unqualified fighters while the Maoist leaders themselves are not being able to account for the money taken for the fighters of the cantonment earlier. He also said that giving relief to unqualified fighters while the government not even being able to pay the salaries and pensions of the government employees due to the lack of money in the treasury is wrong. Saying that we should oppose, stop, and be aware of such actions of the Maoist-led government, he said that it would be appropriate to employ unqualified fighters instead of relief.

Similarly, Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa has also said that the government’s decision to distribute large amounts of money from the state fund to unqualified fighters is wrong and should be stopped at a time when there is extensive pressure on the resources of the state fund.

He said that while the bill on transitional justice is under consideration, the government should focus on ending the work of transitional justice quickly by creating a victim-friendly law rather than just distributing funds.