The Impeachment Recommendation Committee of the House of Representatives has decided to summon suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana for questioning on August 31. Senior member of the committee Ram Bahadur Bista said that the committee has decided to summon the suspended chief justice to float his opinion on the issue of impeachment. Lawmakers of the ruling coalition parties on February 13, 2022 had registered the impeachment motion against Rana.

As many as 195 lawmakers of the three parties had registered the impeachment motion against Rana.

Then then whip Pushpa Bhusal of the Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center) Chief Whip Dev Prasad Gurung and CPN (Unified Socialist) Chief Whip Jeevaram Shrestha had proposed the motion. The Parliament on March 6 had formed the Impeachment Recommendation Committee to probe the charges leveled in the impeachment motion against the suspended chief justice. Ekwal Miya, Kalayani Kumari Khadka, Krishna Bhakta Pokharel, Pramod Sah, Min Bahadur Bishwokarma, Yasodha Gurung Subedi, Ram Bahadur Bista, Rekha Sharma, Lal Babu Pandit, Bishnu Prasad Paudel and Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe are the members of the committee. Ram Bahadur Bista is the senior member of the committee.