RUPANDEHI, Jan. 23 -- Overcrowded prisons is not a new issue for our country. Stories of dozens of prisoners sleeping in a cramped prison cell draw headlines time and again and the issue have now become a reality but not a shocking one. But what about the marshals in the parliament that are responsible to provide security to lawmakers and other dignitaries? It has to come to fore that the marshals of Province 5 parliament are being deprived of even basic needs at the province's parliament.

"Our changing room, sleeping room, and the bedroom is the same. There is a small corner where we all marshals sleep on in a narrow space at night," said a marshal requesting anonymity.

There is a small hall on the third floor of the office of the secr...