The Supreme Court has issued an interim order not to immediately implement the Citizenship Bill approved by the President.

A single bench of Judge Manoj Kumar Sharma heard the case and issued a short-term interim order to the government not to immediately implement the Citizenship Act, which was approved by President Ramchandra Paudel.

The Supreme Court has called both sides for further discussion. The government has already published the Citizenship Act in the Gazette.

Last Thursday, senior advocates Dr. Surendra Bhandari and Balkrishna Neupane filed separate writs in the Supreme Court. After President Paudel certified the ‘controversial’ citizenship bill on Wednesday, a writ was filed in the court. In the writ, President Paudel and Sheetal Niwas have been made opponents.

Earlier, the then President Bidhya Devi Bhandari returned the bill, which was passed by both houses of the Federal Parliament and sent for verification, with a 15-point message. But after that, the then Congress-Maoist coalition decided to pass it through the Parliament without amending any of the points, and after it was passed by the majority, the bill was stuck in the President’s office.

After President Poudel approved the bill that was returned to the previous federal parliament, major opposition parties are protesting against the bill.