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Vice-president Appeals for Annulling the Ruling of Supreme Court
BY KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
On August 28, 2009, Vice-president Permananda Jha has filed an application through the Attorney General at the Supreme Court of Nepal for annulling the order of the Supreme Court of Nepal issued on August 23, 2009 to him stating to take an oath in Nepali within seven days otherwise his duty would be suspended. The deadline for taking an oath is expiring on August 30, 2009.
In the application the Vice-president has said that wrongly interpreting the subject matters not mentioned elsewhere in the Constitution, issuing the order of annulling the previously taken oath, and going against the values and ideals of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007, the Supreme Court has hit hard on the rights of the people to language. He also has stated that not to take orally an oath in any language other than Nepali has been neither mentioned in the Interim Constitution nor a precedent for it has been set. So, in this circumstance, orally taking an oath (in Hindi) is his fundamental rights he has stated. In view of the Supreme Court’s order is an insult to the multi-linguistic Nepalese people, and is possibly seriously adversely affecting the national integrity and is bringing flaws and faults in the country, he requested the Supreme Court for annulling the unconstitutional order.
The Vice-president has also stated in his appeal that he has signed off the oath in Nepali and has kept it in the state archives; that oath has not been annulled, and has been safely kept as the evidence; however, the Supreme Court has unnecessarily given importance to the oral oath in Hindi he has taken and has issued a prejudiced order against it.
The Vice-president has said in his appeal that the Supreme Court however has not paid any attention to the oath taken by current Prime Minister Madhav Nepal and former Prime Minister Prachanda not fully complying with the format prescribed by the constitution; however, he has signed off the oath in Nepali exactly in the prescribed format but the Supreme Court has not paid any attention to it rather has issued an unclear, unreasonable and wrongly interpreted order; so, he asked the Supreme Court to annul it. (Source: ‘Gorkhapatra of August 29, 2009)
