Hearing on dispute over Thapa’s vote of confidence to be continued on Tuesday

Kathmandu, Sept 4: Hearing on the writ petition filed at the Supreme Court against the ‘vote of confidence’ taken by Chief Minister of Koshi Province, Uddhav Thapa, began from today. The hearing would continue on Tuesday as it could not be completed due to lack of sufficient time today. The hearing took place before the division bench of justices—Sapana Malla Pradhan, Kumar Chudal and Nahakul Subedi.

CPN (UML) Koshi Province Parliamentary Party leader, Hikmat Kumar Karki, had filed the writ petition naming Koshi Province Chief Parshuram Khapung, Chief Minister Thapa, among others as the defendants in the case. SC Justice Ishwor Prasad Khatiwada on August 24 had issued an interim order in the name of province government not to take any long-term decisions, stating that CM Thapa’s approach to securing vote of confidence on unconstitutional.

Koshi Province Chief Minister Thap had taken the confidence motion on August 21. The writ petition was filed at the SC, arguing that the process of securing vote of confidence was unconstitutional.