By Our Reporter  Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana is now in the soup for bargaining for the post of Minister. Raising questions on the conduct of Chief Justice Rana, Nepal Bar Association and civil society have sought his resignation. CJ Rana was dragged into controversy after the media reported that he was seeking a ministerial post for his men and when Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba appointed Rana’s brother-in-law Gajendra Hamal as industry minister during the cabinet expansion. Although Hamal resigned after the controversy, the issue has emerged in the new form seeking Rana’s resignation. Nepal Bar formally sought his resignation on Tuesday while more than 10 justices of the Supreme Court demanded on Monday that the CJ should facilitate the way out in the current judiciary crisis. During an informal consultation on Monday, justices Dipak Kumar Karki, Mira Khadka, Aananda Mohan Bhattarai, Prakashman Singh Raut, and Hari Phuyal among others concluded that CJ Rana should take rational actions and end the dispute. Although CJ Rana said he would not step down and would face impeachment, he might find himself in a difficult position when all lawyers and justices have stood against him. What CJ Rana is facing now is because of the extreme politicization of the judiciary. When political parties divide the posts of justices among them and when the justices deliver based on giving and taking, people will have no faith in the courts and the justice system collapses. It is what has happened again in Nepal’s judiciary system. Interestingly, the leaders of the alliance government have remained silent on the present dispute in the SC. It seems they are trying to protect Rana. Meanwhile, opposition party leader K.P. Sharma Oli has demanded the resignation of all the five judges in the constitutional bench who had contributed to forming the present alliance government. Independent intellectuals believe that to clean the court all those judges appointed under the recommendation of the political leaders have to be removed and the system of appointment of judges through the political quota has to be ended.