Just a few hours before Dahal was about to leave for an important visit to Delhi, a solitary Supreme Court bench led by judge Manoj Kumar Sharma placed an interim stop on the implementation of the Citizenship Bill that President Ram Chandra Poudel had authorised.
A mural on the wall of the new [Indian] Parliament building is said to depict Lumbini and Kapilvastu as being a part of Akhand Bharat. According to Padam Giri, chief whip of the UML, PM Dahal had gone beyond the scope of his brief and had done so at the expense of the national interest.
The passage of the Bill is thought to have satiated Delhi’s desire, stated some five years ago, to extend citizenship to those living in the neighbouring Indian state of Tarai.
Legal experts had differing opinions about the Bill’s current status; some claimed that it had expired with the previous legislature from which it had originated and that the President lacked the authority to give his approval at this time because the previous head of state had initially refused to give her assent before sitting over it when Parliament sent it to her again.
Written By- Smrutiman Anantveer Mohanty, College Name- Army Law College, Pune, Semester- Smrutiman Anantveer Mohanty, an intern under Legal Vidhiya
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