Supreme Court Rejects Stay Order, Confirming Matrika Yadav's Victory in Dhanusha-1

Kathmandu. The victory of Matrika Yadav of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) has been confirmed after the Supreme Court refused to overturn the Election Commission's decision to reject the candidacy of Kishori Sah 'Kamal', the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate in Dhanusha-1, through an interim order.

A joint bench of Justices Binod Sharma and Meghraj Pokharel refused to issue an interim order in favor of Sah. Sah had filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court demanding that his candidacy be upheld.

The Election Commission had canceled Sah's candidacy on Falgun 18 after the Credit Information Center blacklisted his name for failing to fulfill obligations related to banks and financial institutions. The construction company owned by Sah was on the blacklist.

Sah filed the first writ petition against the Election Commission's decision at the Supreme Court on Falgun 19. The first hearing took place on Falgun 25, but the hearing scheduled for Falgun 29 could not take place.

Meanwhile, he filed another writ petition on Falgun 27 demanding that the decision by the Nepal Rastra Bank and the Credit Information Center to blacklist him not be implemented. Justice Sharanga Subedi's bench heard this writ and issued an interim order stating that Sah did not appear on the blacklist according to the letter received from the Center.

However, with the Supreme Court's decision on Sunday to refuse the interim order, Sah's candidacy remains canceled, and Matrika Yadav of the CPN's victory from Dhanusha-1, as previously announced by the Election Commission, is now certain.