KATHMANDU:CPN-UML leader and Lumbini Province Chief Minister Shankar Pokharel has said that Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba’s claim for the post of Prime Minister is unlawful as the latter has claimed the majority ‘obtained’ through non-parliamentary means.
After the hearing on the writ petitions filed against the dissolution of the House of Representatives resumed in the Constitutional Bench on Wednesday, a leader loyal to UML’s KP Oli faction, Pokharel counter-argued through face book against the arguments of the lawyers in the Supreme Court.
“Law students must know that in a parliamentary system, a majority obtained through non-parliamentary means is invalid and deserves annulling,” he wrote on his Wednesday social media post.
During the debate in the Supreme Court, on Wednesday senior advocates Shambhu Thapa and Mahadev Yadav had demanded that Deuba should be made the Prime Minister as he had submitted his claim with the signatures of the majority lawmakers in the parliament.
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