Deliberation continues on CPDCC report

Kathmandu, Dec 22: Deliberations continued on the 2071 report of the Constitutional-Political Dialogue and Consensus Committee (CPDCC) at today's meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) that began nearly after two hours later than the slated time.

At the outset of the programme, Nepali Congress (NC) CA member Ananda Prasad Dhungana said there is no alternative but to promulgate a new constitution on January 22 as per the promise made before the people.

Bhim Acharya of the CPN-UML expressed grief over zero progress so far on constitution writing despite spending more than eight years and stressed that the CA should not miss the golden opportunity this time to deliver the statute.

UCPN (Maoist) lawmaker Hitraj Pandey argued that it would not be acceptable to bring out constitution through process given the incumbent CA has owned up the works carried out by erstwhile CA.

CA member from Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Bhaskar Bhadra accused the deliberations so far made in connection with framing constitution of being ritual and commented that the inaction on part of leaders of the big political parties was behind the failure of CPDCC.

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) CA member Jayant Chand said the constitution should be promulgated even by going to the extent of process.

Usha Yadav of Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum (MJF) expressed wrath over NC and UML's stance of promulgating new constitution via process instead of putting efforts for forging consensus.

Also speaking on the occasion were Lokmani Dhakal of Rastriya Janajagaran Party, Sher Bahadur Tamang of CPN-UML.

CA Chairperson Subas Nembang announced to hold next meeting of the CA at 13:00 pm on December 23 to continue deliberations on the report. RSS