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CA meet delay worries lawmakers
Lawmakers have expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in convening the session of the Constituent Assembly (CA).
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Lawmakers have expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in convening the session of the Constituent Assembly (CA). Forty-nine days have passed since the country voted on November 19 to elect a new CA with the mandate to issue a new constitution.
The lawmakers, who arrived in the Capital to participate in constitution writing process after the polls, are eagerly awaiting for the day they enter the CA building at New Baneshwor.
The parliament venue has already been prepared, but the major political parties are not. They are at loggerheads on whether the executive head or the head of the state should be allowed to call the first House session. The issue has now reached the Supreme Court, while the top leaders from the major political parties seem to be engaged in informal power negotiations.
Meanwhile, the delay has frustrated the newly elected lawmakers, as they have nothing important to do in order to pass the time.
Karna Bahadur Thapa, a CPN (UML)-elect from Bajura district, has been spending his time studying the works completed by the previous CA.
“It is regrettable to see the top leaders discussing the matters of power sharing at a time when we ought to be putting all our concentrations and efforts in constitution writing,” Thapa said.
He said the CA session should be called at the earliest and the solutions to whatever the disputed issues are must be sought within it.
Ram Hari Khatiwada, a Nepali Congress lawmaker from Okhaldhunga constituency-2, criticised the leadership of top political parties for not learning from past mistakes. The people’s mandate is loud and clear, and that the voters gave the parties a second chance to come up with a new constitution, he said. “Setting aside their frustration towards the parties for failing to deliver a new constitution through the first CA, the people participated in the November election. The parties should not delay any further and get on with the work that has been asked to do by the people.”
Khatiwada is worried how he will face the people from his constituency when he returns home. He said the parties debate on a “petty” issue as to who has the authority to summon the first meeting of the CA has sent wrong message to the entire world.
Abiral Gautam
Published at : January 8, 2014
Updated at : December 24, 2022 21:02
Kathmandu
Lawmakers have expressed dissatisfaction over the delay in convening the session of the Constituent Assembly (CA). Forty-nine days have passed since the country voted on November 19 to elect a new CA with the mandate to issue a new constitution.
The lawmakers, who arrived in the Capital to participate in constitution writing process after the polls, are eagerly awaiting for the day they enter the CA building at New Baneshwor.
The parliament venue has already been prepared, but the major political parties are not. They are at loggerheads on whether the executive head or the head of the state should be allowed to call the first House session. The issue has now reached the Supreme Court, while the top leaders from the major political parties seem to be engaged in informal power negotiations.
Meanwhile, the delay has frustrated the newly elected lawmakers, as they have nothing important to do in order to pass the time.
Karna Bahadur Thapa, a CPN (UML)-elect from Bajura district, has been spending his time studying the works completed by the previous CA.
“It is regrettable to see the top leaders discussing the matters of power sharing at a time when we ought to be putting all our concentrations and efforts in constitution writing,” Thapa said.
He said the CA session should be called at the earliest and the solutions to whatever the disputed issues are must be sought within it.
Ram Hari Khatiwada, a Nepali Congress lawmaker from Okhaldhunga constituency-2, criticised the leadership of top political parties for not learning from past mistakes. The people’s mandate is loud and clear, and that the voters gave the parties a second chance to come up with a new constitution, he said. “Setting aside their frustration towards the parties for failing to deliver a new constitution through the first CA, the people participated in the November election. The parties should not delay any further and get on with the work that has been asked to do by the people.”
Khatiwada is worried how he will face the people from his constituency when he returns home. He said the parties debate on a “petty” issue as to who has the authority to summon the first meeting of the CA has sent wrong message to the entire world.
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