Though the amendment proposal was registered by the previous government led by Nepali Congress (NC), six lawmakers from the same party have demanded revisions to the bill.
“If we delimitate electoral constituency only based on population, 14 hill districts might be left without any representatives in the parliament,” said Minendra Rijal of NC. According to his proposal, there should be 70 constituencies in Madhes and 85 in the hill.
Bimalendra Nidhi of NC argued that there must be 83 constituencies in Madhes. “We can still allocate at least one constituency to each district while allocating 83 to Madhes which has above 50 percent population,” said Nidhi.
Both Nidhi and Rijal were ministers in the previous government, which had registered the proposal.
Romi Gauchan of the same party on the other hand demanded that the amendment bill must ensure representation from each hilly and remote district by not reducing at least one constituency from those districts.
The government amendment bill proposes delimiting electoral constituencies based on population while not reducing the constituencies for the existing districts.
Altogether 24 lawmakers have registered revision proposal to the constitution amendment bill over delimitating constituencies and reviewing quotas for propositional inclusive system.
Most of the UCPN (Maoist) lawmakers including Ram Narayan Bidari, Cham Bahadur Gurung, Rupa Maharjan and others have demanded including economically deprived and workers class in such quotas.
Farmullah Mansur of NC has demanded decreasing quotas under proportional inclusive reservation.
Yogendra Chaudhari of Madhesi Peoples Right Forum Democratic also suggested reviewing the quotas defending his amendment proposal. Deliberations on the proposal are to conclude by Friday.
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