The Last meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) formed a 49-member questionnaire formation committee to prepare the questions on the disputed issues of the new constitution. CA Chair Subas Chandra Nembang himself proposed the Committee as well as the name of the lawmakers to be represented in the committee, amidst the sloganeering by the opposition alliance led by the UCPN (Maoist) party. It may be noted that the CA Chairman call to the Chief Whip of Nepali Congress Chinjkaji Shrestha had not been successful, as the agitating opposition party CA members had been stopping him from doing so since January 19
The proposal by CA Chairman Nembang to form the Committee was approved by a majority of the CA through a voice vote. The committee will hold its first meeting after five days and has been asked to submit its report within five days after it begins it work. CA Chairman Nembang also read out names of the 49 lawmakers included in the Committee.
The CA meeting has been prorogued until further notice.UCPN-Maoist-led 30-party alliance on Sunday announced to launch stern protest programmes against Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subas Chandra Nembang after the latter formed a Proposal Committee to settle disputed issues at the CA unilaterally. The opposition alliance held an emergency meeting immediately after the CA meeting this afternoon and decided to launch protests against him from today itself. Earlier, UCPN-M Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is also coordinator of the alliance, had said Nembang has turned himself as a spokesperson of ruling parties.
Nepal’s parliamentary speaker Sunday announced plans for a vote on a new national constitution to end a political deadlock, sparking fresh anger from opposition lawmakers. The ruling and opposition parties have spent years locked in a stalemate over the terms of a constitution designed to draw a line under a decade of civil war. Lawmakers’ failure to reach agreement before a deadline last Thursday triggered a political crisis in the country.
Speaker Subash Nembang said he had decided to press ahead with a vote rather than wait until an agreement could be hammered out between the ruling parties and the opposition, which is led by former Maoist rebels. “I have tried to find a middle way that allows… the Constituent Assembly to move forward, as well as (time to) continue discussions for consensus,” said Nembang.
