Kathmandu, March 3:

Lawyers participating in the Golden Jubilee Conference of the Nepal Bar Association today urged the King to immediately quit the post of the chairman of the Council of Ministers.

During a discussion on constitutional law, the lawyers demanded that the monarch depart from the post of the chairman of the Council of Ministers and shed executive powers as per the spirit of the recent Supreme Court verdict on RCCC ‘which has stated that the royal takeover last year was unconstitutional’.

Senior Advocate Radheshyam Adhikary said it was against the rule of law for the king to chair the Council of Ministers. “Why is not he quitting the chairmanship even after the Supreme Court verdict?” he asked.