Kathmandu, 15 December: A writ petition has been filed at Supreme Court (SC), demanding the annulment of the post of lawmaker Rabi Lamichhane, Chairman of the Rastriya Swatantra Party. According to the SC Spokesperson Bimal Paudel, the apex court received a petition demanding that Lamichhane be stopped from being sworn in as lawmaker pointing at his citizenship controversy.
Advocates duo Yubraj Safal and Rabiraj Bartaula demanded that the court vacated Lamichhane’s post of lawmaker, arguing that he is not a Nepali citizen. “Because Lamichhane is not a Nepali citizen, he is not qualified even to be the candidate of election to House of Representatives. So, there must be re-poll in constituency no 2 of Chitwan,” they asserted in the petition. Lamichhane has not taken Nepali citizenship certificate after he relinquished US citizenship, they claimed.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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