A day after claiming that they reached “understanding” on three of the four major contentious subjects of the new Constitution, Nepal’s political parties on Monday did not reach an agreement on them. The meeting of Parliamentary Business Advisory Committee has hit a deadlock after the ruling and opposition parties locked their horns over whether or not to go for Constituent Assembly (CA) process. Last week Four hundred and thirteen lawmakers of the Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and other parties have submitted their signatures to the Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subash Nembang demanding timely constitution. The lawmakers of the ruling parties have submitted the signatures to the CA Chairman at a time when the political parties have failed to forge consensus on the disputed issues of a new constitution. Leader of the Rastriya Janamorcha and lawmaker Chitra Bahadur KC led the delegation to submit the collection of signatures to the CA Chairman Nembang and demanded promulgation of new constitution on the stipulated date of January 22. The lawmakers have demanded that the constitution should be promulgated without further delay even by going to the due CA procedure if the consensus efforts fail, said lawmaker of the UML Prakash Jwala.
