Subcommittee settles seven disputed issues

KATHMANDU, March 22: The subcommittee formed to settle disputes in constitution writing on Tuesday resolved seven of the total 37 remaining questions by agreeing to give continuity to various to state bodies, entities and their heads and members in the transitional period after the promulgation of the constitution.



The subcommittee in its meeting on Tuesday agreed to give continuity to various institutions, including the president, the vice-president, parliament, council of ministers and constitutional bodies until new ones will replace them after a new election or nomination. [break]



“These bodies will be given continuity until the new ones will replace them,” Nepali Congress parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Paudel told media persons after the meeting.



UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who heads the subcommittee, lauded the agreement as a significant achievement. “The meeting today [Tuesday] settled seven disputes and now we have only 30 questions to be resolved,” Dahal told reporters.



The Constitutional Committee (CC), which is mandated to settle disputes and prepare the first integrated draft of the new constitution by incorporating all the eleven thematic reports, of the Constituent Assembly (CA) formed the subcommittee with a view to expedite the dispute resolution process.



Earlier, the subcommittee had solved around 50 questions.

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