Following mounting pressure from various sectors including some Members of Parliament (MPs), the Parliament is preparing to amend the “tobacco law” as urgent bills in January.
Based on practices, all urgent bills have to be amended and adopted in the same session. The winter session of the Parliament is commencing from January 4.
The act that was enforced from January this year has already convicted 10 of smuggling and jailed.
The government and Parliament received much criticism when a local court slapped 3 years of jail term to a monk student, who was caught with chewing tobacco worth Nu 120.
Citizens have started building rays of hope that those insides the bars would receive amnesty and be released following the completing of the Winter Session of the Parliament.
