When lawmakers in Nepal assembled in the House of Representatives on Sunday for the first time since the country’s apex court reinstated the house, the house saw a ruckus as opposition parties questioned the government on several counts.

The Oli-led government tabled a controversial Constitutional Council Amendment Ordinance, lawmakers from the opposition parties demanded the government to withdraw it. A report in the Himalayan Times says some of the MPs from Nepali Congress and other parties swarmed the well of the house and later staged a walkout.

Pushpa Bhusal, a leader of the Nepali Congress, said the government brought the act in an undemocratic way by taking the ordinance route rather than through discussion among the various stakeholders.

The Dahal-Nepal faction of the ruling party also questioned the legitimacy of the Oli government. In a judgment on Sunday, the Supreme Court nullified the 2018 unification of two communist factions into the single Nepal Communist Party. The court awarded the name “Nepal Communist Party” to a petitioner who had challenged the 2018 unification.

Referring to the apex court ruling, the Dahal-Nepal faction asked Oli to name the party whose government he was heading. Later, the MPs belonging to the faction also walked out of the house in protest.

However, no no-confidence motion was submitted against the Oli government on the first day of the session. The speaker adjourned the house after the ruckus until Wednesday.