Addressing a political gathering organised by the CPN-UML as part of the by-election campaign here on Sunday, Secretary Gyawali said the Constituent Assembly could not be postponed for long in the name of talks. If consensus eludes again, voting must be adopted to bring the constitution on time, he stressed.

"The politics of negation has marred the national politics," he said, adding that the country has been held hostage of indecision because every political party wants to foist their agenda in the constitution writing process.

According to him, the constitution writing was delayed because some political forces were against the idea of promulgating it from the Constituent Assembly.

The UML is for the rights of all castes, religions, languages, classes and regions, he added.

On a different note, he stressed on the need to empower women to reduce the violence against them. RSS