By Muna Chand
Kathmandu, March 20
A hearing of the writ petition filed against the Cabinet expansion by erstwhile Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is scheduled for Sunday.
A joint bench of Justices Bishwa Prakash Shrestha and Dr. Kumar Chudal will hold a hearing.
Earlier on December 28 and 29, 2020, senior Advocate Dinesh Tripathi and Advocate Lokendra Wali had filed writ petitions against the then Prime Minister Oli’s expansion of the Council of Ministers.
The petitioners have maintained that it is unconstitutional to expand the Cabinet after the
dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) and demanded the apex court to scrap the decision.
On December 25, 2020, following the dissolution of parliament, then-Prime Minister Oli
expanded the Cabinet.
