KATHMANDU, July 29:  A meeting of the mechanism related to transitional justice (TJ) has concluded. The meeting of the mechanism which was held this morning at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Singha Durbar has been concluded and is scheduled to be held again on Thursday.

In today's discussion, the participating members of the mechanism were Nepali Congress leader and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, CPN-UML Parliamentary Party Chief Whip Mahesh Bartaula and CPN (Maoist Center) Deputy General Secretary Janardan Sharma. 

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ajay Chaurasia, Chairperson of the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of parliament, Bimala Subedi, and Attorney General Ramesh Badal, and others, also participated in the meeting.

Following the meeting, Bartaula said that today's meeting will be held again next Thursday. He said, “The meeting discussed the need to review the original law, the bill, and the report from the sub-committee. After all preparations are complete, we will hold the next meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday at 8AM." He said that a draft of the discussions held so far will be prepared and future discussions will be focused on it.

Earlier on Friday, a meeting of the mechanism held at the Ministry of Home Affairs discussed the issue of building consensus on the transitional justice bill.