Kathmandu, June 10 -- The House of Representatives has been paralysed for two weeks now as ruling and opposition parties continue to spar over the 'visit visa' scam.

After talks between ruling and opposition parties on Monday also failed to break the deadlock, the next meeting of the lower house has been rescheduled for Wednesday at 1 pm. The House meeting on Monday was adjourned for half an hour without entering the agenda due to obstruction by the opposition. As no consensus could be reached among the political parties, Parliament secretariat posted a notice stating that the session has been postponed until Wednesday afternoon.

The Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has unearthed a vast network operating...