Acting CJ Karki seeks help of UML to endorse impeachment motion

KATHMANDU: Acting Chief Justice Deepak Kumar Karki urged the main opposition CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli to help the ruling coalition to endorse the impeachment motion filed against Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana.

Karki sent a proposal to Chairman Oli seeking help of the UML to endorse the impeachment motion.

In response, Oli said that the motion will not be ratified at any cost and urged Karki not to play politics from the court with support of the ruling alliance.

Taking to Nepal Press over phone, a source close to Oli said that Karki has been urging the UML Chairman to help ruling alliance to endorse the motion.

But Oli said that the motion will not be endorsed in Nepal, the source said.

Chairman Oli said that this impeachment motion means the design of the ruling coalition and some justices of the Supreme Court.