KATHMANDU: Leaders close to UML Chairman and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli have concluded that the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) made a political decision.

Voicing their dissent on the verdict Monday after the Supreme Court issued an order to appoint Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba as the Prime Minister while reinstating the House of Representatives (HoR), leaders of UML Oli faction said so.

UML General Secretary Ishwor Pokharel tweeted that the court’s decision had sown the seeds of political instability in the country.

बुझे हुन्छ – आजको फैसलाद्वारा मुलुकमा राजनीतिक अस्थीरताको दुन्दुभी बजाइयो …!यसका मतियारहरूले जे सुकै पगडी लगाए पनि इतिहासको कठघरामा अभियुक्त हुनैपर्छ ।

— Ishwar Pokhrel (@IshwarPokhrel) July 12, 2021

A meeting of the Standing Committee of the UML had been scheduled at 5 pm Monday. The meeting will formally decide how to proceed ahead after the SC decision, said Surya Thapa, Press Adviser to the Prime Minister.

Immediately after the court’s decision earlier in the day, an emergency meeting of leaders of Oli faction was held in Baluwatar.

General Secretary Pokharel disagreed with Monday’s SC verdict and said that all those responsible for the verdict should take the witness stand and would be judged in the course of time.

Press Advisor to the Prime Minister Surya Thapa, on the other hand, said they reached the conclusion that the Constitutional Bench had made a political decision. Thapa said questions were raised ever since the selection of judges in the bench.

Stating that no writ petition was heard except for Sher Bahadur Deuba’s from among 30 writ petitions filed on the same issue, Thapa said the decision affected the practice of the parliamentary system.

Thapa added the court ruled in the setting. “Those involved, those who played a role and those who took the decision will face far-reaching effects, ” he said.