{"id":1120,"date":"2019-11-04T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2019-11-04T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:53:26","slug":"governors-of-all-seven-provinces-sacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meromauka.com\/news\/governors-of-all-seven-provinces-sacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors of all seven provinces sacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu, November 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has, on the recommendation of the government, sacked the governors of all seven provinces. The main opposition Nepali Congress has condemned the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Office of the President stated in its press release that President Bhandari relieved the governors of their posts in accordance with Article 165 (1) (b) of the constitution. A Cabinet meeting held earlier today had recommended that the president remove the governors from their offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article 165 (1) lists situations when the post of governor falls vacant. 165 (1) (b) stipulates that the post of governor shall become vacant if his or her term of office expires and he or she is removed from office by the president prior to expiration of the term. Normally, governors can serve for five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article 163 (3) of the constitution stipulates: The term of office of governor shall be five years except when the president removes him or her from office prior to expiration of his or her term of office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governors who lost their jobs today include Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang of Province 1, Ratneshwor Lal Kayastha of Province 2, Anuradha Koirala of Province 3, Baburam Kunwar of Gandaki Province, Uma Kant Jha of Province 5, Durga Keshar Khanal of Karnali Province and Mohan Raj Malla of Sudurpaschim Province. Sher Bahadur Deuba\u2019s government had recommended their names on January 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kunwar told<em>&nbsp;THT<\/em>&nbsp;that he was a lawyer and personally felt relieved as he could now practice law, but he termed the government\u2019s decision \u2018height of anarchy\u2019. \u201cThis decision is an attack on the constitutional provisions and rule of law and it is also against federalism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government\u2019s decision to sack him was mala fide action because he had not done anything wrong. \u201cA governor\u2019s post cannot remain vacant even for a minute. The government arbitrarily removed us without giving us any chance to be heard,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepali Congress lawmaker Radhe Shyam Adhikari, who is also a senior advocate, told<em>&nbsp;THT<\/em>&nbsp;that the government\u2019s decision was constitutionally untenable. \u201cGovernors have five years\u2019 fixed term, but if the government decides to remove them before their term ends, then the government must level charge against them and if the government accuses them of wrongdoing, then it must give them a chance to be heard,\u201d Adhikari said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the case could be tested by the Supreme Court if the governors who were removed from office today moved the court challenging the decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Bidhya Devi Bhandari administering oath of office and secrecy to newly appointed governors of provinces, at Shital Niwas, Kathmandu, on Friday, January 19, 2018. Photo courtesy: Office of the President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These governors were appointed by the Deuba-led government, but successive governments cannot make whimsical decisions to overturn the decisions of the previous government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bimalendra Nidhi, vice-president of Nepali Congress, the main opposition party, said the government\u2019s decision sacking all the governors violated not only the constitutional provisions but also the election code of conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs per the spirit of the constitution, the government must give these governors a chance to be heard before deciding to remove them from office,\u201d Nidhi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the government\u2019s decision was prejudiced and immature. \u201cThe government\u2019s move is also aimed at weakening federalism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Advocate Surendra Kumar Mahto, however, said the government had the power to remove governors, but it could have justified its move had it removed them immediately after coming to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe former CPN-UML and the CPN-MC had told the Deuba-led government to appoint new governors only with their consent. When Deuba was preparing to appoint these governors, some UML leaders had even threatened to remove the new governors, but they did not remove them immediately after coming to power,\u201d Mahto added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, November 3 President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has, on the recommendation of the government, sacked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nepal","category-news","category-politics-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governors of all seven provinces sacked | Buy sell anything in Nepal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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