The government has withdrawn the Citizenship Bill from the Parliament on Friday.
The Nepal Citizenship (First Amendment) Bill 2075 presented by Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand has been withdrawn from the House of Representatives.
The main opposition CPN-UML lawmakers protested against the proposal to withdraw the bill.
Minister Khand said that the Citizenship Bill will be presented again from the Cabinet meeting today itself.
The KP Sharma Oli government had registered the bill at the Parliament Secretariat on August 7, 2018.
