The hearings of the writ petitions that have been filed at the Supreme Court against the president’s move to dissolve the House of Representatives and announce mid-term elections will take place today.
Of the 30 writs filed at the apex court, hearings on 19 such writs will take place today.
All the writs that have been filed at the Supreme Court against the dissolution of the House will be heard by a single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana.
President Bidhya Devi Bhandari, on the recommendation of the government, had dissolved the House of Representatives and announced the dates for mid-term elections on May 22. She had cited that the claims made by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also chairperson of CPN UML, and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba to form the government as per Article 76 (5) of the Constitution of Nepal did not hold sufficient ground to confirm that they would win the vote of confidence in the Parliament.
Meanwhile, 146 lawmakers of the now-dissolved House of Representatives have also filed a writ at the Supreme Court stating that the president’s rejection of Deuba’s claim even when he had the majority and dissolving the House was unconstitutional.
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