{"id":40345,"date":"2026-01-18T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40345"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:02:54","slug":"election-commissions-decision-on-nc-challenged-in-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/election-commissions-decision-on-nc-challenged-in-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission&#8217;s decision on NC challenged in Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Jan 18: The Sher Bahadur Deuba-led faction of the Nepali Congress has filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court, challenging the Election Commission&#8217;s decision to grant official status to the party&#8217;s Gagan Thapa group.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court Administration has stated that the preliminary hearing on the writ petition will take place next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was filed by Shrawan Kumar Shrestha as a representative of Congress leaders Deuba and Purna Bahadur Khadka.<\/p>\n<p>The writ petition has sought annulment of the Election Commission&#8217;s decision, suspension of the candidate nominations for the election on January 20, arguing that the NC&#8217;s newly-elected Central Working Committee was unlawful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Jan 18: The Sher Bahadur Deuba-led faction of the Nepali Congress has filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court, challenging the Election Commission&#8217;s decision to grant official status to the party&#8217;s Gagan Thapa group. The Supreme Court Administration has stated that the preliminary hearing on the writ petition will take place next Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40347,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40345\/revisions\/40347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}