Kathmandu, May 17 -- Upon his arrival from a weeklong visit to two Southeast Asian nations, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday told reporters that he did not make comments that were against parliamentary decorum while responding to queries of the main opposition in the House of Representatives on May 7.

"The [House] Speaker hasn't said I used any unparliamentary words. Nor has he directed to remove them from the record," Oli told the media at the Tribhuvan International Airport. "Some lawmakers had used indecent, provocative and unparliamentary words, and the Speaker's directive was targeted at them."

Oli went on to say that he was aware of the dignity and decorum of Parliament and that he has always maintained that.

But Oli's c...