Uprendra Yadav's Party Split Case Hearing Concludes at Supreme Court

Kathmandu. The hearing on the case filed by Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal Chairman Upendra Yadav against the division of his party has concluded at the full bench of the Supreme Court. The hearing concluded at the full bench comprising Justices Kumar Regmi, Mahesh Sharma Paudel, and Shrikant Paudel.

Previously, a joint bench had ordered to send it to a full bench, deeming it a matter of serious constitutional interpretation. Justices Hari Prasad Phuyal and Til Prasad Shrestha's bench had ordered its presentation to the full bench.

Leaders including Ashok Rai, who left JSP Nepal, had applied to the Election Commission to register another party, and the commission had registered their party. However, Yadav had filed a writ in the Supreme Court, arguing that registering another party based on the application of leaders who left his party was illegal. 

Furthermore, Yadav had also filed a second writ in the Supreme Court demanding a halt to the work of 7 MPs who left his party in their capacity as MPs. Although the bench had issued a short-term interim order in Yadav's favor previously, the Ashok Rai-led Janata Samajwadi Party, formed after the party split, had given a vote of confidence to then-Prime Minister Pushkamal Dahal Prachanda.