Parliament forms 11-member ‘Impeachment Recommendation Committee’

KATHMANDU, March 6: The House of Representatives (HoR) has formed an impeachment recommendation committee to study the impeachment motion registered against Chief Justice Cholendra SJB Rana at the federal parliament secretariat.

The HoR meeting formed an 11-member recommendation committee to investigate the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Rana. The impeachment recommendation committee has four members from the CPN-UML, two each from Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Center) and one member each from CPN (Unified Socialist), Democratic Socialist Party and Janata Samajbadi Party.

The committee consists of lawmakers Ekbal Miya, Kalyani Kumari Khadka, Krishna Bhakta Pokharel, Pramod Shah, Min Bahadur Biswakarma, Yasoda Gurung Subedi, Ram Bahadur Bista, Rekha Sharma, Lalbabu Pandit, Bishnu Prasad Poudel and Shiva Maya Tumbahamphe.

On February 13 this year, 98 lawmakers from the ruling coalition filed an impeachment motion against CJ Rana.