Maoists unveil "statute"

KATHMANDU, May 29: The UCPN (Maoist) on Saturday made public its draft of "constitution" proposing 12 federal provinces. The party stated that it made public the "constitution" after the CA failed in its mission to write a new constitution within the stipulated time.



The document dubbed as "Constitution of People´s Federal Democratic Nepal 2010” was unveiled by party vice-chairman Baburam Bhattarai amidst a rally at Khullamanch.



The 12 states proposed in the are: Limbuwan, Kirat, Sherpa, Mithila-Bhojpura-Koch-Madhes, Tamsaling, Magarat, Tamuwan, Lumbini-Awadh-Tharuwan, Karnali, Jadan and Khaptad. The CA committee on state restructuring has already passed a 14-state federal model.



The Maoist "constitution" proposes parliamentary control over judiciary among many other controversial stances of the Maoists.



Addressing the function, Bhattarai said that the concept of republicanism is an exercise to institutionalize the “bourgeois democracy” and that his party would go for a socialist revolution standing under the foundation of bourgeois democracy.

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