CA Extension: Parties likely to okay govt bill after calendar
Verdict pushes parties for final 6-month extension
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KATHMANDU, NOV 28 - With the apex court putting a final cap on the term of the Constituent Assembly, the major parties are likely to endorse the already-tabled government bill to extend the CA by six more months after adopting yet another "time-bound calendar" on statute writing.
A meeting of the major parties on Sunday formed a three-member taskforce to prepare the time-bound calendar keeping in view the six-month limit imposed by the Supreme Court order before fixing the period of extension. All the parties agree that given the court order, the “maximum limit” of the extension is now six months and they will have to extend CA tenure based on the calendar.
The meeting of the UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC), CPN-UML and Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha (SLMM) mandated the three-member mechanism to prepare a calendar calculating the exact time required for completing the constitution drafting process by Tuesday morning.
The taskforce comprises Post Bahadur Bogati from the UCPN (Maoist), Krishna Prasad Sitaula from NC, Ishwor Pokharel from UML and Jaya Prakash Gupta from SLMM.
The chairman of the Constitutional Committee of CA, Nilambar Acharya, said another six-month period is required to complete the technical procedures of writing the constitution. “There is no need to waste time discussing about the extension period. The parties should go for a six-month extension as per the SC verdict and speed up the statute-drafting process,” said Acharya.
A highly placed source at the CA said there is no alternative to endorsing the government bill that seeks six-month extension. “The State Restructuring Commission will take at least two months, another four months will be required to complete the technical procedures,” the source said.
NC Parliamentary Party Spokesperson Nabindra Raj Joshi said NC was not against the extension but it stressed on preparing the calendar because taking any haphazard decision on the period of extension without a concrete calendar would be futile.
“There is no dispute that the maximum limit is six months, but we should take a decision only after the calendar is prepared,” he said.
The parliament session slated for Sunday, which was supposed to vote on government's proposal, was postponed for Tuesday as the parties failed to forge consensus on the period of extension. The CA current term expires on Wednesday (November 30).
Posted on: 2011-11-28 01:00
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