The Citizenship Bill sent by the Parliament to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has not been verified for the second time either.

After the bill passed by the Parliament for the second time, the time to verify the Citizenship Bill, submitted to the President through the Speaker, has exceeded 15 days on Tuesday night at 12:00. There is a constitutional provision that the President must verify the bill coming for re-verification within 15 days.

The Citizenship Bill, which was sent for verification for the first time, was returned to Parliament for reconsideration by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari. The returned Citizenship Bill passed without any amendment, was actually sent to the President’s Office for re-certification for the second time and even could not be verified after exceeding the time limit.

A source close to the President said, “According to the Constitution, the President is the protector of the Constitution. So the President should be responsible, even for every full stop and commas of the Constitution. The constitution has not given the right to the top leaders of the alliance to decide on the bill sitting on Baluwatar, which the president actually sent to the parliament for reconsideration and the provisions of the bill were not reconsidered even though they were suggested to be corrected by referring to the clauses that were against the constitution.So, the President might have exercised her rights to protect the Constitution in respect of the Bill.”