Kathmandu, May 5 -- After sitting on it for a week, President Ramchandra Paudel returned the ordinance on the Constitutional Council (Functions, Duties, Powers and Procedures) to the government for review on Sunday. The Balendra Shah administration refused to reconsider it and sent it back to Paudel for authentication.

A Cabinet meeting held on Monday decided to resend the ordinance in its existing form. Now, the Shital Niwas is unwilling to hold it further and act as recommended, said an official, speaking on condition of anonymity, as he is not allowed to speak to the media.

Paudel's aides say that, as the provisions he had reservations about in the bill to amend the Constitutional Council Act have been carried over into this ordinanc...