KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 13

Minister of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Dilendra Prasad Badu has said the Parliament will conduct discussion on the impeachment motion tabled against Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana.

Talking to mediapersons at the federal Parliament Secretariat, Minister Badu said, 'The Parliament will hold discussions on the proposal. A process has moved ahead for an end to the constitutional stalemate.'

Ninety-eight lawmakers of the ruling parties today filed an impeachment motion against CJ Rana, levelling 21 accusations against him.

Following the tabling of the motion, Nepali Congress Whip Pushpa Bhusal said the CJ had failed to prove his efficacy in the judiciary, prompting them to seek his removal from the post.

He has been accused of not conducting the constitutional bench effectively, exerting influence on several appointments, not implementing the Supreme Court reports and failing to deliver the duties on the basis of power balance, thus creating a disappointing atmosphere in the judiciary.

Bhusal further argued that they were compelled to file the impeachment motion against the CJ as he had failed to deliver as per the constitution.

Meanwhile, chief whip of CPN-Maoist Centre Dev Prasad Gurung said the CJ could not perform his leading role in the judiciary fairly. 'The independent judiciary has been hampered by the deadlock for threeand-a-half-months and it has failed to perform as per the constitution and democratic norms and values.'

A version of this article appears in the print on February 14, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.