KATHMANDU - Nepal's Supreme Court ruled on Friday (Jan 27) that deputy prime minister Rabi Lamichhane had stood for election with invalid citizenship papers, annulling his status as a lawmaker and effectively removing him from office. Lamichhane became deputy prime minister for home affairs - heading the ministry that oversees identity cards - in a seven-party alliance that took power...
Bishnu Prasad Paudel , Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister along with Narayan Kaji Shrestha , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport and Rabi Lamichhane , Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister administer the oath of office at the presidential building Shital Niwas in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Dec 26, 2022.
In its ruling on Friday, a five-member constitutional bench of the top court said the 48-year-old had contested November elections on an invalid citizenship certificate after abandoning his US citizenship.
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