The Supreme Court is set to hear the petition filed by the CPN-UML against the dissolution of the House of Representatives.
A constitutional bench comprising Chief Justice Prakashman Singh Raut and Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla, Kumar Regmi, Hari Prasad Phuyal, and Manoj Kumar Regmi has been scheduled to review the writ petition filed by UML leaders Mahesh Bartola and Sunita Baral.
Earlier, more than 16 petitions demanding the reinstatement of the House had already been registered, and preliminary hearings were underway. The UML’s petition demands that Prime Minister Sushila Karki’s decision to dissolve the House be annulled and the Parliament reinstated.
The petition requests the court to declare the period after Bhadra 24 as a “null period,” reinstate the House of Representatives, and restore all state bodies and agencies to their status prior to the dissolution.
The Office of the President, Prime Minister Sushila Karki, the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, the Election Commission, and the Parliamentary Secretariat have been named as defendants in the writ.
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