By Our Reporter  The present government of the five-party alliance has bullied the President by deciding to resend the Citizenship Bill, which was returned by the President with a message to review it, to the President as it is for final certification. Four days after the President returned Bill to the Parliament seeking a review of some of the provisions, the House of Representatives last week approved the Citizenship Bill with a majority, rejecting the President’s plea to review some of its provisions. The Upper House, where the ruling alliance enjoys a majority will probably pass it next week although National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina can delay its approval as he tends to work in favour of the CPN-UML to which President Bidya Devi Bhandari belongs. Moreover, the meetings of the parliament have been put off till August 28 at the request of the CPN-UML which is holding its standing committee and central committee meetings this week. It means, the NA will approve the Bill only after August 29. Once the Upper House endorses the controversial Bill, it will reach the President for certification, and constitutionally, the President could not reject it for the second time. Rumours have it that the President is thinking about resigning from the top post over the issue just three months before her term is to expire instead of certifying the Bill. Her resignation, if happens, as designed by the CPN-UML, will provide an election issue for the UML. But the President’s resignation will not enough to prevent the Bill from becoming law because in absence of the President, the Vice President will act as the president and Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun may certify the Bill. President Bidya Devi Bhandari had returned the Bill to the parliament keeping it with her for 14 days. However, her message sent to the Parliament lacked clarity as she had questioned whether the privacy of the mother could be maintained while issuing citizenship in the mother’s name, while the most contentious provision in the Bill is to provide the foreign bride with the citizenship immediately. Although the president had returned the Bill to review its provisions, the government outright rejected her plea. Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand on Monday said that there was no need to clarify the president the issue. What the government did in the Citizenship will surely bring the government and the President into confrontation, and UML may ask the President to step so that it could have an issue of nationalism in upcoming elections. Initially, the House of Representatives endorsed the Bill on July 22, and the Upper House passed it on July 28, a week after it was endorsed by the Lower House and it was submitted to the President for final certification.