CDC chairman Tahir Ali Ansari handed over the report to Chairman of Interim Election Council, Khil Raj Regmi. According to Bimal Gautam, the press advisor for Chairman of Interim Election Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi, the report would be released by the cabinet meeting later.
"Regmi thanked the Ansari-led comission for submitting the report on time," Gautam said talking to Republica online.The government had formed the Ansar-led CDC on June 25, entrusting it with the responsibility of reviewing the existing 240 election constituencies in accordance with the latest census report. [break]
According to Article 154 A of the Interim Constitution, the government had constituted a constituency delimitation commission to determine election constituencies for the purpose of electing members of the Constituent Assembly
As per the existing constitutional provision, number of constituencies needs to be increased as the latest census showed that the population has increased in all the districts across the country except for Kavrepalanchowk.
Although the constitution has stated that the number of electoral constituencies shall be increased on the basis of latest population census, the number of constituencies has already been fixed in the constitution and that has stood as a contradiction.
A recent amendment to the interim constitution has fixed the total number of seats for the upcoming CA at 491. While 240 will be elected directly from the constituencies, 240 others will be nominated as per seats allocations under proportional representation system. Likewise, 11 CA members will be nominated.
As the CDEC required political consensus to take any decision on delineating fresh electoral constituencies in view of the constitutional difficulties, the High Level Political Committee (HLPC) had earlier formed a separate eight-member task force to make suggestions to the HLPC. The Task Force also failed to make any recommendation to the HLPC as it involved constitutional difficulties.
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