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CA to vote to end disputed issues
KATHMANDU, AUG 08 -
The three major parties—UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML— on Sunday agreed to resolve the disputed issues in the reports submitted by various thematic committees through voting in the Constituent Assembly (CA).
The constitution-drafting has hit a snag after the major parties failed to forward the concept papers of eight thematic committees to the Constitutional Committee (CC). A meeting of the senior leaders of the three big parties agreed to prepare questionnaires on disputed issues and settle the row through voting in the House.
According to the agreement, a provision of simple majority would be incorporated in the report to be forwarded to the CC. The draft constitution proposed by the CC needs to be endorsed by a two-thirds majority in the CA.
NC Chief Whip Laxman Ghimire said Sunday’s meeting finalised questionnaires relating to the CA Committee for the Protection of National Interest.
The six contentious issues proposed in the committee’s report include compulsory conscription for all Nepali citizens above 18 years, appointment of Chief of Army Staff, mentioning the integration and rehabilitation of the Maoist combatants in the Nepal Army in the new constitution. The parties are divided over the provision of signing international treaties by the central government, the need of federal government’s consent for signing such treaties and the use of the term “People’s War” in the constitution.
The CA has remained defunct since the eleventh amendment to the calendar of events on July 18. The revised schedule obliges all the thematic committees to submit
their reports to the CC by Oct. 17 and preparation of the statute’s first draft by Nov. 16.
Posted on: 2010-08-09 07:44
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