SC Ruling And Lamichhane's Ministerial Claims

The Supreme Court’s recent decision on annulling citizenship of Rabi Lamichhane, the president of the newly emerged political party Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the powerful deputy prime minister and home minister of the seven-party coalition government has caused a serious setback not only to the political journey of Lamichhane, but also the future of RSP. Lamichhane’s party RSP made a miraculous victory in Chitwan as well as the capital winning seven seats in the direct and 20 seats in total including proportional seats in the parliament. His party, in five months of its founding, had come fourth in the 275-member parliament keeping other old parties RPP, JSP and CPN (Unified Socialist) behind it.