Madeshi parties restore UDMF

            Kathmandu, Nov 24: Six Madhes-centered political parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA) have reinstated the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF).

            The leaders of Madhesi parties said at a news conference in the capital on Monday that the UDMF was reinstated aiming to create an atmosphere conducive to promulgate the new constitution by January 22 and thereby institutionalize the achievements of different movements and people's struggles made so far.

            The UDMF has recalled that the Article 138 (1) (a) of the Interim Constitution of Nepal 2007 has stated that a federal democratic republic state shall be made by internalizing the aspirations for autonomous provinces of Madhesi, indigenous, nationalities and people of backward and other regions. 

            The UDMF said that forming the provinces based on identity and viability and not including any other region's part with the Tarai-Madhes while forming the provinces was its concept.

            Likewise, the UDMF has put forth the idea of being integrated with the UCPN (Maoist)-led 22-party alliance to make it more effective through effective coordination.

            A taskforce under the leadership of Jitendra Narayan Dev has been formed to prepare the programmes of the UDMF.

            Hridayesh Tripathi, Lalbabu Yadav, Laxmanlal Karn, Rani Sharma and Shekhar Kumar Singh are the members in the taskforce.

            Likewise, the UDMF has decided not to join government until the promulgation of constitution and reject any of the proposals in that regard. RSS