Janardan Sharma resigns amidst accusation of committing financial crime
Finally, Finance Minister Janardan Sharma resigned from his position amid widespread criticism following charges that he had employed two unauthorized persons to twist around tax rates in 2079/80 proposed annual budget on May 28, a day before he was supposed to present the budget in the parliament. However, he condemned the main opposition’s lawmakers’ accusation about his misconduct before announcing his resignation in the parliament yesterday.
Parliament has constituted an 11-member investigating panel comprising lawmakers of different political parties in the parliament to investigate Sharma’s act of breaching the budgetary discipline. In fact, Sharma put himself in more trouble after his ministry refused to provide CCTV footage to the parliament citing ministry’s CCTV automatically deletes its footages after 15 days. Constitutional experts opine that his acts of breaching the budgetary discipline is a serious financial crime which should be thoroughly investigated and lawfully punished if found guilty.
It
is yet to be seen whether the investigating panel, which has been given 10 days
to examine, whether Sharma acted against the national interest, will fairly and
impartially investigate the case, not being as the lawmakers of their political
parties but being as the true representatives of the sovereign people, and
bring out reports containing Sharma’s wrongdoings if there were any and
recommend to punish him lawfully.
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