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For and Against President’s Intervention
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On Monday, May 4, 2009, ‘Inhured International’ has filed a case against the President’s intervention in the government decision on firing the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Rukmangad Katuwal at the Supreme Court of Nepal asking for dismissal of the President’s decision on keeping the CoAS fired by the Government of Nepal for defying the government’s orders on three accounts.
Political analysts say that the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxists and Leninist (CPN-UML) including some fringe political parties requesting the President for intervening in the decision of the government on firing the CoAS have led the President to violate the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 subjecting the President to impeachment by the parliament or the people on the streets.
Political analysts say that some political leaders leading the President to violate the Interim Constitution have shown their political immaturity, as it will set the precedent of the President intervening in any affairs of the Government in future; in addition, it has put the President above the Constitution.
On May 5, 2009, the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist has decided to obstruct the parliamentary session until the President corrects his decision on intervening in the decision made by the Government of Nepal on firing the CoAS.
Some leaders of the CPN-UML leaders including Deputy Chairman Bamdev Gautam have said that the President’s intervention in the government’s decision is unconstitutional and violates the Interim Constitution.
On May 5, 2009, civil society activists have staged a sit-in rally at the President’s official residence in Kathmandu protesting the President’s unconstitutional intervention in the government’s decision on firing the CoAS.
