The Supreme Court has issued a show cause order on the Election Commission's decision. With this order, the legitimacy enjoyed by the Thapa faction will remain intact.
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The Supreme Court has refused to issue an interim order in the Nepali Congress dispute.
Sher Bahadur Deuba and Purna Bahadur Khadka had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the Election Commission's decision to grant legitimacy to the Gagan Thapa faction, who was elected from the special general convention. The bench of Justice Sunil Kumar Pokharel rejected the interim order in the first hearing on the writ. The Supreme Court has also called both parties for discussion.
The Supreme Court has issued a show-cause order on the Election Commission's decision. With this order of the Supreme Court, the legitimacy obtained by the Thapa faction will remain intact.
Deuba and Khadka had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court on Sunday, demanding that the election process should not proceed until the dispute regarding the Election Commission's decision is resolved. During the debate on Tuesday, they had also demanded an interim order to extend the nomination period for only the Nepali Congress, keeping the status quo in the case of other parties. But the Supreme Court has rejected it.
They had demanded that the nominations to be held in 165 constituencies next Tuesday be postponed and that the election process should be stopped if it could not be postponed.
They had demanded that the nomination process be stopped, saying that if the election process goes ahead without resolving the dispute over the Election Commission's decision, the country's oldest party would be deprived of the election process. They had named the Election Commission, Gagan Thapa, who became the president from the special general convention, Vice President Bishwaprakash Karma, and the Congress Central Working Committee formed after the special general convention as respondents in the writ petition.
Deuba, identifying himself as the central president elected from the 14th general convention of the Congress, had called the special general convention illegal.
According to the claim made by Deuba and Khadka in the Supreme Court, the date was fixed from December 26 to 28, instead of the special general convention, since the regular general convention could not be held as demanded by the general convention delegates.
