A Nepalese government minister has admitted slapping a senior civil servant in the face because he sent an old car to pick her up during an official visit, reports said last week.
Deputy Agriculture Minister Karima Begam said she grabbed the local government worker by the collar and hit him repeatedly across the face after he failed to send the car she had requested.
“Yes, I beat up the CDO (chief district officer),” Begam told the Republica daily. “I slapped him five times.”
Begam was on an official visit to the south of the country to attend a meeting of women lawmakers when the incident occurred.
She was apparently driven round the bend because the functionary, Parsa Durga Prasad Bhandari, had not sent his best car to pick her up, instead dispatching an older model.
“Why can’t a minister use the (newer) vehicle? Who is senior, a minister or a CDO?” she is reported to have asked.
A spokesman for the prime minister told AFP that Begam’s behavior was unacceptable, but declined to comment on whether she would be fired.
Many of Nepal’s newspapers carried front-page pictures of a tearful-looking Bhandari, who said he had tried to reason with the minister but could not get her to listen.
“She even broke my spectacles,” he told Republica.
(AFP)
一位尼泊爾政府部長承認打了一位高階地方官員巴掌,因為他派了一輛舊車接她進行地方視察。
農業部副部長柯芮瑪.貝甘說,因為該名地方政府官員沒派出她事前要求的車輛接送,於是她抓著他的衣領,連續賞了他好幾個巴掌。
貝甘對《共和報》指出:「沒錯,我痛打了這名地方首長。我賞了他五個巴掌。」
事發當時,貝甘人在南部進行正式訪問,出席一場女性國會議員會議。
地方政府官員帕沙.度爾加.帕拉沙德.班達里派了一輛舊車而不是最好的車來接她,她顯然為此感到火冒三丈。
報導指出,她問說:「為甚麼堂堂一位部長不能搭(較新的)車輛?誰的職位比較高?部長?還是地方首長?」
總理發言人對法新社表示,貝甘的行為令人無法接受,但他拒絕透露她是否會因此被革職。
尼泊爾許多報紙都在頭版刊登班達里淚眼汪汪的照片,他說他試圖和部長講理,但她完全不理。
他對《共和報》表示:「她甚至打破了我的眼鏡。」(法新社╱翻譯:袁星塵)
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