{"id":2562,"date":"2020-02-07T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/02\/07\/no-military-issues-in-mcc:-leader-dr-mahat\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:11:00","slug":"no-military-issues-in-mcc-leader-dr-mahat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/02\/07\/no-military-issues-in-mcc-leader-dr-mahat\/","title":{"rendered":"No military issues in MCC: leader Dr Mahat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepali Congress leader and former finance minister Dr Ramsharan Mahat has said MCC is purely a financial project, and has no military issues in it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an interaction organized by Nepal Press Union Sunsari chapter here Friday, Dr Mahat reminded, &#8221;MCC was formed in 2004 and was passed by the American Congress to assist least developed countries for building good governance, transparency, open economy, civil rights, press freedom.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Also the central committee member of Nepali Congress, he added that Nepal was selected for this programme in 2014. Leader Mahat further made it clear that MCC is not a part of Indo Pacific Strategy of USA. &#8221;MCC is a global programme while the Indo Pacific is just a programme within Indo Pacific region,&quot; he reminded.<\/p>\n<p>On a different note, he asserted that filing corruption case against former deputy prime minister and Nepali Congress Vice-President Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar over the Baluwatar land scam was just a political bias.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Gachchhadar has made it clear that he put the proposal in the Cabinet following prime minister&#8217;s nod&#8221;, he said, adding that Nepali Congress therefore found political biasness in filing case against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepali Congress leader and former finance minister Dr Ramsharan Mahat has said MCC is purely a financial project, and has no military issues in it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[425,330],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-itahari","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}