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Hearing On Cases Against Ordinance And Subsequent Formation Of Government
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 5, 2013: the special bench comprising all justices including Acting Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Nepal Damodar Prasad Sharma yesterday has selected seven cases out of 24 cases filed against the 25-point Removal of Constitutional Hurdles Ordinance and the subsequent formation of the Interim Election Council of Ministers headed by Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Nepal Khil Raj Regmi for hearing starting on August 1, 2013, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
On March 13, 2013, the four political parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC, CPN-UML, and UDMF decided to set up an ‘interim election council of ministers’ to hold elections to a new CA, as they could not agree on forming any government headed by any political party to hold the elections.
The then government headed by Dr Baburam Bhattarai recommend the 25-point Removal of Constitutional Hurdles Ordinance, and then form an ‘interim election council of ministers’ to President Dr Ram Baran Yadav.
On the morning of March 14, 2013, President Dr Yadav issued the 25-point Removal of Constitutional Hurdles Ordinance and sworn in Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Nepal Khil Raj Regmi as the chairman of the interim election council of ministers.
Nepal Bar Association vehemently opposed the government headed by the sitting chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal, and marked the day as the black day in the judiciary of Nepal.
Then, some of the lawyers filed cases against the ordinance and the subsequent formation of the government headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal stating them as unconstitutional.
