Calls for House session as judicial crisis protracts

Observers say the House should be summoned so that lawmakers can discuss the disputes in the Supreme Court.

The tug of war in Nepal’s judiciary continues. There is a debate if the executive can take any position on the crisis in the Supreme Court. The legislature, another organ of the state, is the only place from where removal of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana, which is the main demand of the protesting lawyers and justices, is possible.