A writ petition has been filed on behalf of seven people, including Shyam Ghimire, the Chief Whip of the Nepali Congress in the dissolved House of Representatives.
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The Nepali Congress has also filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the dissolution of the House of Representatives. The writ petition has been filed on behalf of 7 people, including Shyam Ghimire, who was the chief whip of the Nepali Congress in the dissolved House of Representatives. Earlier, the UML had also filed a writ petition against the dissolution of the House of Representatives. Both parties have approached the Supreme Court separately.
The Supreme Court spokesperson Arjun Koirala said that the writ filed by the Congress is under study. According to him, the petition has been submitted for registration in the Constitutional Bench and a decision on the registration will be taken on Monday after the study.
Along with this, 17 writs are pending in the Supreme Court under two political parties and public concern regarding the dissolution of the House of Representatives. The first hearing has already been held on the UML and 17 other petitions. The Supreme Court has already ordered that all the previously registered writs be kept together and heard. The writ filed by the Congress will also be registered and kept in the first hearing. It seems that the Supreme Court can hear all these petitions at once and dispose of them.
The two parties in the then ruling coalition, the Congress and the UML, signed a joint writ demanding the restoration of the House of Representatives with the support of the majority of the members of the dissolved parliament. However, since the two parties did not reach the majority even after combining the two parties, the writ petitions were filed separately. UML had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court against the dissolution of the House of Representatives on 9 Mangsir, calling it unconstitutional. The writ petition was filed on behalf of UML by the then parliamentary party chief whip Mahesh Bartaula and whip Sunita Baral.
The Congress also filed a writ petition against the dissolution of the parliament two days after the meeting between Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli. Deuba and Oli met in Maharajgunj last Friday. That was their first meeting after the Gen-G movement on 23 Bhadra. After the Gen-G movement on 23 Bhadra and the protest on 24 Bhadra, the government was formed on 27 Bhadra under the leadership of former Chief Justice Sushila Karki. Karki had recommended the dissolution of the House of Representatives immediately after taking oath. The recommendation was approved by President Ram Chandra Poudel.
