The Supreme Court has issued an interim order in the name of the government to withdraw its proposal to extend the term of Constituent Assembly.
The order issued by a single bench of Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi was in response to writ petitions filed by lawyers Kanchan Krishna Neupane, Bal Krishna Neupane, Bharatmani Jangam, Raj Kumar Rana, Chandra Lal Shrestha and Jagadev Chaudhary. Earlier this week, the government had registered a bill seeking amendment of Article 64 of the interim constitution in a bid to extend the CA by three months. But the petitioners argued that government proposal violated Article 116 of the constitution, which required that judicial rulings be upheld and respected, and sought withdrawl of the bill.
In November, the Supreme Court verdict had declared the six-month extension as the final one, which had prompted the parties to seek consensus in a bid to declare the constitution within 27 May. But inability of the parties to resolve thorny issues had forced the government to seek yet another extension.