Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court demanding that some provisions of the House of Representatives Regulations be scrapped.

The court has also scheduled the hearing of the writ petition filed by the Nepali Congress on Friday in the Constitutional Bench for 31 June.

In the writ, the NC has demanded that the regulation be scrapped for placing the regulations above the Act, encroaching on the jurisdiction of the National Assembly and contradicting with Rule 140 (11) and 259 of the Regulations in contradiction with Article 274 (8) of the Constitution.

Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Kamala Devi Panta, Chief Whip Padam Bahadur Pariyar, deputy leader of the House of Representatives Parliamentary Party Abhishek Pratap Shah and Chief Whip Basana Thapa had registered the writ petition at the National Assembly.

The NC had objected to the House of Representatives Regulations 2083 which was passed on the basis of majority on May 30 amidst protest and sloganeering by the Nepali Congress and other parties.

The NC had demanded that some provisions in the draft of the regulations be sent to the committee for further discussions. Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal, however, said that there was no need to take the draft to the committee. The drafting committee was coordinated by deputy parliamentary party leader of Rastriya Swatantra Party Ganesh Parajuli.

The writ has named House of Representatives, Parliament Secretariat, Speaker Aryal, Drafting Committee Coordinator Parajuli and Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs as defendants, according to advocate Raju Katuwal, who drafted the petition. The petition has demanded an order not to implement the provisions mentioned in the petition.