By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 24, 2023Thousands of people descended on Kathmandu on Thursday in a major show of force between two rival groups—the supporters of the controversial businessman Durga Prasai and sister organisations of the CPN-UML stewarded by lawmaker Mahesh Basnet. This was the first major demonstration in Kathmandu demanding the reinstatement of monarchy and Hindu state after Nepal became a secular republic in 2008. Fearing clashes between the two sides,…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, May 26, 2023The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the appointment of Bindabasini Kansakar as a member of the House of Representatives, replacing Dhaka Kumar Shrestha. A division bench of justices Kumar Regmi and Nahakul Subedi, on Wednesday, refused to issue an interim order in Shrestha’s writ petition against the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s decision to strip him of the lawmaker position. Shrestha had demanded scrapping of the party’s move,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 26, 2023Nearly two weeks after the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s decision to expel its lawmaker Dhaka Kumar Shrestha from the party and as a lawmaker, he lost his position as a member of the House of Representatives. Speaker Dev Raj Ghimire, on Tuesday, stripped Shrestha as a member of the lower house, based on his former party’s recommendation. “The position of member of the House of Representatives Dhaka Kumar Shrestha…