Kathmandu, May 10
The president of Nepal Bar Association, Chandreshwar Shrestha, and the Association’s representative to the Judicial Council, Ram Prasad Sitaula, quarrelled during a function organised on the occasion of National Law Day at the Supreme Court premises on Thursday.
Following the incident, the umbrella organisation of Nepali lawyers is preparing to withdraw Sitaula from the Council membership claiming he misbehaved with the president.
Witnesses inform that Sitaula told Shrestha that he would not give any heed to a letter sent by the Association, and used derogatory words insulting him in front of justices, lawyers and journalists.
The Association’s treasurer Rudra Pokharel says it was a disrespect to not only the president as an individual, but the institution.
“Now, he faces a moral question if he still can act as a representative of the Bar.”
Pokharel informs that the Association had sent him a letter, inviting to a discussion on a guideline about nominating Council members.
Meanwhile, Sitaula says he did not misbehave with the president. He, however, confesses that he might have chosen some wrong words in the conversation and it is obvious among ‘friends’.
Sitaula is close to the main opposition Nepali Congress whereas the new leadership of Bar is considered leftist.
