Two years for new statute, not people's mandate: Minister

KATHMANDU, May 18: Minister for Information and Communications and government spokesperson Shankar Pokharel on Tuesday argued that people have not given a mandate to draft a new constitution within two years.



Addressing a program organized by Nepal Press Institute in the capital, the minister claimed that the political parties had reached a consensus to draft the new constitution within two years.



"People have not assigned us to draft a new constitution within two years but it is political consensus," Pokharel said.

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