The Supreme Court has put a stop to the execution of the citizenship bill, which the President signed into law last week.
Bimal Poudel, a spokesman for the Supreme Court, said that a single bench of Justice Manoj Sharma gave the order last Wednesday to stop the implementation of the bill signed by President Ram Chandra Poudel.
Surendra Bhandari and Bal Krishna Neupane, two senior lawyers, filed a case with the highest court saying that the authentication was against the constitution.
Today, the Supreme Court held a hearing on the writ and sent a “show cause” to the office of the President, which is the claimant.
Earlier, opposition parties had obstructed the parliament session over the authentication of the citizenship bill forcing the postponement of the meeting.
Opposition parties including CPN (UML), Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) have been protesting the authentication of the bill.
The bill should be endorsed through the parliamentary process, they demanded.
Before the protest, Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat was scheduled to table a proposal to commence general deliberation on the annual estimation of revenue and expenditures for the coming fiscal year, 2023/24.
UML chief whip Padam Giri said the citizenship bill should be tabled in the parliament through the constitutional procedure, and the parliament should be allowed its full business to pass it within a week. RSP chief whip Santosh Pariyar said the process of certification of the bill should have followed the due procedures.