According to Hridyesh Tripathi, the leader of Tarai Madhesh Democratic Party (TMDP), a meeting of the alliance held at the Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s office in Singha Durbar also criticized the PM for his controversial statement on the CA.[break]
“We expressed concerns about his statement,” Tripathi said after the meeting. “The PM offered a self-criticism.”
PM Nepal on Friday said that ‘he was averse to the idea of the CA and only agreed for the CA only to please the Maoist’.
No alternative than extending CA terms: Vice President
Meanwhile, issuing a press release vice-president Parmananda Jha appealed all the political parties and leaders for their positive thought and role for the extension of the CA.
“I don’t see easy alternative to writing of new constitution and for that extending the terms of the CA,” he said in the release.
Fringe parties demand extension
Similarly, RSS reported that fifteen fringe parties represented in the CA submitted a memorandum to Parliamentary Party Leader of the Nepali Congress Ram Chandra Poudel demanding extension of the constitution-making body.
They handed over the memorandum, appealing to the NC not to make the supreme, sovereign and people’s representative body defunct.
CP Mailani of CPN (ML), Alauddin Ansari of Rastriya Prajantra Party, Dr Prakash Chandra Lohani of Rastriya Janashakti Party, Kalpana Rana of CPN (United), Devendra Mishra of Nepal Sadhbhawana Party (Anandidevi), Biswendra Paswan of Dalit Janajati Party, Yeknath Dhakal of Nepal Family Party, Hikmat Bahadur Deuba of Samajbadi Janatantrik Party and Keshav Mainali of Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekata Party have signed in the memorandum.
Stating that the CA is above than any political system and the government, and it can form a new government as per the need and draft the constitution of people’s choice, the memorandum has urged the NC to extend the CA tenure.
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