Speaker informs parliament about Top Bahadur Rayamajhi’s arrest

KATHMANDU: Speaker Devraj Ghimire informed the House of Representatives on Monday about the arrest of CPN-UML lawmaker Top Bahadur Rayamajhi. The police gave official information to the parliament secretariat about the status of lawmaker Rayamajhi, who was arrested from his relative’s residence in Budhanilkantha on Sunday and revealed that he has been in the custody […]

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Speaker Ghimire informs parliament about Rayamajhi's arrest

Speaker of the Federal Parliament Devraj Ghimire has informed the parliament of the arrest of lawmaker Top Bahadur Rayamajhi. Rayamajhi was arrested from Budhanilkantha in Kathmandu on Sunday evening, he notified.

Ghimire informs parliament about Rayamajhi's arrest

Speaker of the Federal Parliament Devraj Ghimire has informed the parliament of the arrest of lawmaker Top Bahadur Rayamajhi.

Ghimire informs parliament about Rayamajhi's arrest

Speaker of the Federal Parliament Devraj Ghimire has informed the parliament of the arrest of lawmaker Top Bahadur Rayamajhi.

Top Bahadur Rayamajhi emails Parliament Secretariat, claiming he is ill

KATHMANDU, May 10: Suspended CPN-UML secretary and former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, who is on the fugitive list of the police, has sent an email to the parliament secretariat, claiming that he has taken ill.

Top Bahadur Rayamajhi emails Parliament Secretariat, claiming he is ill

KATHMANDU, May 10: Suspended CPN-UML secretary and former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, who is on the fugitive list of the police, has sent an email to the parliament secretariat, claiming that he has taken ill.

Four ex Maoist lawmakers move court demanding reinstatement

KATHMANDU, July 28: Four former lawmakers of CPN (Maoist Center) have knocked at the door of Supreme Court (SC) demanding the reinstatement of their position as the member of House of Representatives (HoR).  Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatta, Prabhu Bhatta and Gaurishankar Chaudhary, who were elected from the CPN (Maoist Center) filed a writ petition at the apex court on Wednesday demanding the court to reinstate them as the lawmakers.  They said that they were suspended from the membership of parliament even without being sought any clarification.  The four MPs were sacked by the Maoist Center after they decided to join the CPN-UML following the Supreme Court’s March 7 order to invalidate the merger of UML and Maoist to form the erstwhile Nepal Communist Party (NCP).  The cause list has been scheduled for Thursday.

Minister Rayamajhi rules out returning to Maoist Centre

Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Top Bahadur Rayamajhi has said that he would not return to the CPN (Maoist Centre) even if he lost his seat in the parliament.

SC annuls appointment of seven minister including Home Minister Thapa

KATHMANDU, May 20: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an order to scrap the appointment of seven ministers in the KP Sharma Oli-led Cabinet.  Responding to a writ petition filed against the appointment of seven ministers, who are not the members of the federal parliament, a single bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JBR, on Thursday,  invalidated the appointment of the ministers including Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa as per Article 78 of the constitution. Prime Minister Oli appointed seven ministers on May 14 after he was reappointed as the Prime Minister on May 13.  With this, Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, Industry Minister Lekhraj Bhatta, Energy Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Urban Development Minister Prabhu Shah, Drinking Water Minister Mani Thapa, Labor Minister Gauri Shankar Chaudhary and Sports Minister Dawa Lama have been relieved of the member of Cabinet.  Advocates duo Kapil Dev Dhakal and Rabiraj Thapa filed the writ petition demanding to scrap their appointment.

Home Minister Thapa loses membership of National Assembly

KATHMANDU, April 18: With Chairman of National Assembly (NA), Ganesh Timilsina deciding to relieve Ram Bahadur Thapa, who is also the Ministers for Home Affairs (MoHA), as the member of the upper house of parliament, Thapa has lost the membership of the NA. Following Timilsina’s decision, the Federal Parliament Secretariat published a notice that Thapa’s position of lawmaker remains vacant, on Sunday. With this, Thapa also lost his ministerial position. He can be reappointed by PM KP Sharma Oli and remain as the minister for the next six months despite losing the membership of parliament.  Article 78 of the Constitution of Nepal states that one who is not a member of federal parliament can be appointed as the minister, however, is required to obtain the membership of parliament within six months from the date of taking an oath. The CPN (Maoist Center) had suspended Thapa as the lawmaker of the upper house as he joined the KP Oli-led CPN-UML following the March 7 order of the Supreme Court to invalidate the merger between the UML and Maoist to the Nepal Communist Party. The CPN (MC) registered a letter to the federal parliament secretariat on April 9 sharing the party’s decision. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had earlier reappointed the former Maoist lawmakers – Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, Lekhraj Bhatta, Prabhu Sah and Gaurishankar Chaudhary—after they were suspended as the members of the House of Representatives (HoR).