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PHSC puts off hearing of SC justice nominees
Parliamentary hearing of Supreme Court justice nominees scheduled for Sunday has been postponed for an indefinite period, according to a member of the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee.Parliamentary hearing of Supreme Court justice nominees scheduled for Sunday has been postponed for an indefinite period, according to a member of the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee.
“We have been informed that [PHSC] Chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung won’t be available for the meeting as he is not feeling well,” said Ganesh Gurung, a PHSC member. “The [hearing] process will hopefully start once he gets well.”
The PHSC, which was formed after months-long dispute over its strength, has so far conducted the hearing of Supreme Court Justice Sushila Karki and Chief Election Commissioner Ayodhee Prasad Yadav.
The PHSC on Thursday had decided to start the hearing of 11 apex court justice nominees from Sunday.
SC justice nominees Dip Kumar Karki and Kedar Prasad Chalise were scheduled to appear before the PHSC for the hearing on Sunday. But the PHSC on Saturday issued a notice about the postponement of Sunday’s hearing.
After completing the hearing of the SC justice nominees, PHSC is scheduled to conduct hearing of 22 ambassadorial nominees. The ambassadorial nominations were made in the third week of April. Though the PHSC on Saturday decided to postpone the Sunday’s hearing of SC justices until further notice, saying that the committee chairman “has called in sick”, some believe the move could possibly be an outcome of the changed political scenario.
When the ambassadors were nominated in April, the main opposition Nepali Congress had taken exception to the government decision. But now with the CPN (Maoist Centre) in bid to form a new government with the backing of the NC, the latter could try to alter the decision taken by the CPN-UML government, which is set to face a no-confidence motion in Parliament on July 21.
On Thursday, NC Chief Whip Chin Kaji Shrestha had told the Post that there “could possibly be changes in the nominations of justices and ambassadors”.