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Criminals Become Eligible For Standing As Candidates
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 24, 2013: the Constituent Assembly Election Ordinance issued by the president has made the provision for disqualifying the criminals being the candidates for the members of the constituent assembly. However, advocate Biswoprasad Bhandari filed an appeal at the Supreme Court of Nepal for not enforcing the article of the ordinance that bars the criminals from participating in the elections and for being the candidates stating the cases of crimes committed during the conflict period are the special cases and are to be resolved by the special commission.
Hearing on the case, a single bench of Justice Tarkraj Bhatta issued the stay order on not enforcing the provision made in the Constituent Assembly Election Ordinance for making criminals ineligible for being candidates for the members of the Supreme Court of Nepal. This ruling has made the four former ministers that had served the jail terms for corruption and abuse of the authority, and Balkrishna Dungel of the UCPN-Maoist indicted for the murder, eligible for being the candidates in the coming elections. The four former ministers belonged to the Nepali Congress.
