{"id":6007,"date":"2021-02-22T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:30:54","slug":"why-did-army-chief-thapa-meet-chief-justice-rana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kathmandupati.com\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"Why did Army Chief Thapa meet\u00a0 Chief Justice Rana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>KATHMANDU &#8211;<\/strong> Purna Chandra Thapa, Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) of the Nepal Army, has held a meeting with Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nepa Army Chief Thapa reached the Supreme Court today to meet Chief Justice Rana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meeting between the Army Chief and the Chief Justice comes in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s preparation to issue its verdict on the House dissolution case in a few days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it&#8217;s not immediately clear what transpired at the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chief Justice is also in the five-member Constitutional Bench that is preparing to issue it\u2019s \u2018landmark\u2019 verdict on whether the government\u2019s decision to dissolve the House of Representatives was in line with the constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier on December 20 last year, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli suddenly decided to dissolve the House and set dates for midterm elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move was not only challenged in the Supreme Court, but also left the ruling Nepal Communist Party on the verge of a split.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU &#8211; Purna Chandra Thapa, Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) of the Nepal Army, has held a meeting with Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana. 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