The Supreme Court held the final hearing today in the citizenship case of Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane. The hearing is being held in the bench of 5 judges including Acting Chief Justice Harikrishna Karki.

Lawyers Raviraj Basaula, Yuvraj Paudel and others filed a writ petition raising questions about the qualifications of MPs elected as members of the House of Representatives by Deputy Prime Minister Lamichhane, who is also the chairman of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party. In the writ petition, the demand for cancellation of Deputy Prime Minister Lamichhane’s MP post was made mentioning that he opened a political party without taking Nepali citizenship, contested in the House of Representatives elections and became an MP.