Minister Pandit warns of legal retaliation,

Kathmandu, July 8. Minister for General Administration Lal Babu Pandit has warned of legal retaliation if other government bodies continued to undermine his stand against the civil servants with permanent residencies of other countries.
Speaking at an interaction program organized at the Reporters’ Club on Tuesday, Minister Pandit flayed the recent decision of the Cabinet to transfer joint secretary Mr. Bharat Raj Subedi to Finance Ministry.
Pandit informs that the joint secretary Subedi holds a permanent residency of Australia. He claimed that the decision was made through a Cabinet meeting, which he had not attended. “The transfer, however, needs an endorsement from my Ministry, before implementation,” he said, challenging that the transfer could not come into effect at any cost, Pandit says while speaking at an interaction presided by the Reporters’ Club Nepal’s president Rishi Dhamala.
He opined his view that the transfer decision was made in the absence of him, while he was attending the closed-door sessions of his party CPN-UML’s ongoing general convention. Minister Pandit, meanwhile, also underscored the need to increase the salaries of government employees through this year’s national budget. He says if the related ministry would purposed for the salary increase to those national civil servant in this fiscal year he would have approved.
While in the same occasion, Minister Pandit claimed that Madhav Kumar Nepal would be the next party chairman of CPN-UML from the party’s 9th national convention . He went on to say that he is also one of the candidates for the post of party vice-chairman.