Kathmandu, July 21: Hearing of a writ petition filed at the Supreme Court against the appointment of CPN-UML Chair manKP Sharma Oli as the new Prime Minister is scheduled for Sunday.
The hearing is set to be conducted by a single bench of Justice Bal Krishna Dhakal.
PM Oli on the other hand is scheduled to take a vote of confidence from the House of Representatives today itself.
Earlier, advocates Shailendra Gupta, Khagendra Chapagain and Deepak Adhikari filed the writ petition on Monday, demanding that Oli’s appointment be annulled and a new Prime Minister be appointed as per Article 76 (3).
President Ram Chandra Paudel appointed Oli as the Prime Minister under Article 76 (2) of the Constitution of Nepal on Sunday last week.
The petitioners have maintained that after the outgoing PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda failed to secure his vote of confidence, the new PM must have been appointed as per Article 76 (3).
They have also demanded the President to appoint the parliamentary party leader of the largest party or Nepali Congress in the parliament as the new PM after Dahal lost his confidence vote.
