Major jolt to KP Oli, Nepal SC reinstates House of Representatives Major jolt to KP Oli, Nepal SC reinstates House of Representatives Nepal Prime Minister KP Oli received a major setback after the Supreme court reinstated the dissolved House Of Representatives, the lower house of the Nepalese Parliament.
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
Nepal’s top court on Tuesday reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives in a major jolt to Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who was embattled and preparing for snap polls. A five-member constitutional bench headed by Justice Cholendra Shumsher JBR nullified the government’s decision to dissolve the 275-member lower house of the parliament. the court further ordered the government to summon the house session within the next 13 days.
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Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli
Nepal s Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives, in a major setback to embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli who was preparing for snap polls amidst a tussle for power with his rivals in the ruling communist party. In a landmark ruling, a five-member constitutional bench led by Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher annulled the Oli government s unconstitutional decision to dissolve the 275-member lower house of Parliament.
The court also ordered the government to summon the House session within the next 13 days.
Nepal plunged into a political crisis on December 20 after President Bidya Dev Bhandari dissolved the House and announced fresh elections on April 30 and May 10 at the recommendation of Prime Minister Oli, amidst a tussle for power within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
KATHMANDU/NEW DELHI: In a big setback for K P Oli, Nepal’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of parliament, two months after the Prime Minister dissolved the House and called for an early election. After months of infighting in the ruling Nepal Communist Party fanned by his rivalry with former PM P K Dahal Prachanda, Oli had dissolved the parliament on December 20 in a move described by many as unconstitutional. The ruling means Oli, who was elected in 2018 following his party’s landslide win in an election in 2017, faces a no-confidence vote once parliament re-sits.
Oli’s decision to dissolve the House had come in the middle of an outreach to India that also saw his foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali visiting New Delhi in the middle of the political uncertainty in Kathmandu. Unlike China, though, India has kept away from the ruling party crisis, calling it Nepal’s internal matter. There was no reaction from India on Tuesday on the latest development.
In a major setback to KP Sharma Oli, Nepal's Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the Prime Minister's Dec 20 decision to dissolve the House of Representatives