Nepal, Sept. 24 -- On Wednesday, two lawmakers from the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) accused the judiciary of treading an autocratic path and called for its restructuring.

Lawyer-turned-lawmaker Yagya Mani Neupane said the Constitution and the government have changed, but for people to feel real change, the judiciary needs to be restructured. His remarks came in response to last week's interim order by the Constitutional Bench to halt the use of two provisions of the House of Representatives regulations that sought to change the way the two-thirds threshold is calculated by allowing votes from both chambers to be combined. Another RSP lawmaker, Madhu Kumar Chaulagain, went a step further, claiming that the judiciary, which is ex...