Kathmandu, July 9 -- On Monday morning, it was all but certain that the Hearing Committee of Parliament would summon Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to inquire over the government's nomination of four new ambassadors last month. However, by late evening, the committee ended up endorsing the recommendation of all four nominees and only one opposition lawmaker boycotted the meeting after the committee failed to summon Oli.

All Nepali Congress lawmakers had demanded that Oli be summoned to the meeting since he, as head of the Cabinet and chairman of the Constitutional Council, was responsible for selecting ambassadorial candidates and recommending names for constitutional bodies. The opposition party had also boycotted the hearings of chairper...