Oli flew too high

The judiciary has rescued Nepal’s parliamentary democracy and averted a constitutional disaster.

Once again, the Supreme Court has come to the rescue of Nepal’s fragile democracy. On Monday, the five-member Constitutional Bench of the top court overturned Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s dissolution of the House of Representatives and ordered President Bidya Devi Bhandari to appoint Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba as prime minister as per Article 76 (5) of the constitution.