74 lawmakers, excluding the UML, have filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court demanding the annulment of UML leader Saroj Yadav's appointment as Chief Minister.
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The writ petition filed by lawmakers including the Nepali Congress against the formation of the Madhesh Province government has been scheduled for presentation in the bench of Justice Nityanand Pandey. The petition, filed on Tuesday, has been scheduled for presentation in a single bench on Wednesday.
74 MPs other than the CPN-UML had approached the Supreme Court demanding that the decision to appoint Yadav as the Chief Minister be nullified. An interim order was also issued on Tuesday in this dispute. The Supreme Court has also asked Saroj Kumar Yadav, who was appointed as the Chief Minister, not to make long-term decisions.
Nepali Congress Parliamentary Party Leader Krishna Prasad Yadav, JSP Nepal Parliamentary Party Leader Saroj Kumar Yadav, Maoist Center Parliamentary Party Deputy Leader Yubaraj Bhattarai, and LOSPA Parliamentary Party Leader Jayalun Rai have approached the Supreme Court.
There are 107 MPs in Madhesh Province. 54 MPs is the majority number to form a government. UML has 25 including the Speaker, Congress 22, JSP 19, Janmat 13, Maoist 9, LOSPA 9, CPN (S) 7, Federal Socialist Party, RPP and Nagarik Unmukti Party have 1 MP each. Of these, UML MP Dipendra Thakur, JSP MP Saroj Singh Kushwaha, and LOSPA MP Abhiram Sharma are suspended. The current number of members in the Madhesh Provincial Assembly is 104.
The provincial chief administered the oath of office to UML leader Saroj Yadav as the Chief Minister early Monday at a hotel in Bardibas. The controversy has reached the court after it was criticized as politically, constitutionally and morally wrong.
