Citizenship Bill returned to House

Kathmandu, Aug. 14

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has returned the bill to amend the Nepal Citizenship Act, 2007 to the House of Representatives of the federal parliament on Sunday.

The Office of the President said in a statement that the President returned the bill to the parliament citing a need to ‘reconsider’ the provisions for obtaining the citizenship.

The bill was passed by both the Houses of the parliament and approved by the Speaker of the HoR, Agni Prasad Sapkota.

 The House of Representatives had endorsed it on July 22 while the National Assembly approved this on July 28

 The Bill was submitted to the House of Representatives by the present government on July 8 by withdrawing the old ones which had been  pending in the federal parliament since August 2018.   

  Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 15 August 2021.