Kathmandu, Nov. 22 -- The government on Tuesday recommended that President Ramchandra Paudel issue two ordinances to amend the Nepal Special Services Act and the Constitutional Council (Functions, Duties, Powers and Procedures) Act.

After studying for two days, he issued the first ordinance on Friday but withheld the second. "The ordinance related to the Constitutional Council is under study. The President will take a proper decision after studying it," Baburam Kunwar, Paudel's legal adviser, told the Post without elaborating what the 'proper decision' would be.

If senior officials at Sheetal Niwas are to be believed, the President is unhappy with the ordinance that allows appointments to constitutional positions without parliamentary h...