Sixty-five members of the Nepali Congress, who are members of the dissolved House of Representatives, have filed a petition with the Supreme Court demanding the restoration of the parliament. They have also requested to join the writ petition filed earlier by Shyam Ghimire on behalf of the Nepali Congress.

According to Supreme Court spokesperson Arjun Koirala, a supplementary petition filed by the Nepali Congress has been registered and will be presented for hearing in the Constitutional Bench on Wednesday. After the Constitutional Bench including the Chief Justice ordered to keep them together, their petitions will also be kept together and heard.

Earlier, in the writ filed on Mangsir 23, Ghimire, Sushila Thing, Deepak Khadka, Jabeda Khatun, Sita Rana, Nagina Yadav, Shanti BK and Asha BK were present. This time, along with the Congress, Goma Labh Sapkota of the Janmat Party, independent MP Yogendra Mandal and Hasina Khatun of the Ashok Rai-led Janata Samajwadi Party have also signed in favor of the restoration of the parliament.

The first hearing of the writ filed by the Congress was held on Poush 2 and a show-cause order was issued. The constitutional bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut, Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla, Kumar Regmi, Manoj Kumar Sharma and Nahkul Subedi had made such an order. In the petition, they have demanded a halt to all election activities. The supplementary petition states, "Since the unconstitutionally appointed Prime Minister Sushila Karki and the government led by her are also said to be illegal, I should issue an order prohibiting all activities related to the election." The petition names the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, Prime Minister Sushila Karki, the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Election Commission, the Speaker, and the Secretariat of the House of Representatives as defendants. The petition also demands a mandate in the name of the President to form the government as per Article 76 of the Constitution.

The petition claims that after the resignation of then Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Bhadra 24, the President formed a government led by Sushila Karki unconstitutionally without initiating the process of forming a new government as per Article 76.

Similarly, on Mangsir 10, UML Chief Whip Mahesh Bartaula and Whip Sunita Baral had filed a writ petition demanding the same. In that writ petition, the Supreme Court, after the initial hearing, has sought a written response from the President, Prime Minister and the opposition parties and ordered to keep the old writ together.

These are the MPs who filed the supplementary writ petition:

(1) Chanda Chaudhary

2) Badri Prasad Pandey

3) Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat

4) Purna Bahadur Tamang

5) Jeevan Pariyar

6) Dr. Chandrakant Bhandari

7) Pushpa Bahadur Shah

8) Dr. Narayan Khadka

9) Manorama Sherchan

10) Mohan Acharya

11) Ramkrishna Yadav

12) Rajendra Kumar KC

13) Vinakumari Thanait

14) Vinod Kumar Chaudhary

(15) Anjani Shrestha

16) Shankar Bhandari

17) Maina Karki

18) Ramesh Rizal

19) Dig Bahadur Limbu

20) Ramhari Khatiwada

21) Ramesh author

22) Dr. Shashank Koirala

(23) Narayan Prakash Saund

24) Gyanendra Bahadur Karki

25) Prakashman Singh

26) Tejulal Chaudhary

27) Deepak Giri

28) Santosh Chalise

29) Rajendra Bajgai

30) Ishwaridevi Neupane

31) Ramnath Adhikari

32) Dilendra Prasad Badu

33) Dinesh Kumar Yadav

34) Manju Khan

35) Mahendra Kumar Rai

36) Ain Bahadur Shahi Thakuri

37) Sita Gurung

38) Maya Rai

39) Sarita Prasai

40) Dilliraj Pant

41) Tek Bahadur Gurung

42) Vishnu Kumar Karki

43) Kishore Singh Rathore