This situation has arisen as the political parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA), especially the three big parties, could not forge political consensus on contentious issues of the constitution.[break]
As per the latest amendment to the calendar of operation the reports prepared by the eight thematic committees under the Constituent Assembly should have been sent to the Constitutional Committee by October 17.
Let alone carrying out works in consistent with the calendar of operation as per the latest amendment, the major political parties gave priority to establish their control on the leadership of the government rather than on constitution writing and the peace process, and this situation has created hopelessness among the people whether the constitution itself is going to be formulated.
Out of the 11 thematic committees under the Constituent Assembly, only the reports of the Committee on the Protection of Rights and Privileges of Minorities and Marginalised Communities, the Committee on Determining the Structure of the Constitutional Bodies and the Committee on Natural Resources, Economic Rights and Revenue Distribution have reached the Constitutional Committee.
The parties have not been able to resolve the contentious topics contained in the reports prepared by such key thematic committees as the Committee on Determining the Form of State Governance and the Committee on State Restructuring and Allocation of State Power.
Although the parties have started holding discussions in connection with resolving the contentious issues of the thematic committees at the initiative of Speaker Subas Nemwang and they have agreed to start with the contentious issues in the report of the Committee on Determining the Form of Governance, the parties are nowhere near to agreement in resolving the contentious issues due to their respective stances.
A taskforce has been constituted under the convenorship of the UCPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal for resolving the contentious issues in the committee reports. It is to be seen in the coming days how far this taskforce would be successful in taking the constitution writing and the peace process to a positive conclusion.
The term of the Constituent Assembly was extended by one more year with the consent of the political parties represented in the Assembly after it could not complete the constitution writing within the two-year term set by the first meeting of the Assembly on May 27, 2008.
An amount of Rs. 1.5 billion has already been spent from the government coffers for the purpose of writing new constitution since the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly.
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