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A Taskforce For Removing Constitutional Hurdles For Delineation Of Constituencies
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 19, 2013: the Commission on Delineating Constituencies (CDC) has already used more than a half of a month allocated to it to delineate constituencies based on the new population census of 2011 for holding elections to a new Constituent Assembly on November 19, 2013 but it has not been able to do anything concrete because of the conflicting provisions made in the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007.
Pursuant to the Article 154 of the Interim Constitution, the CDC cannot touch the 205 constituencies, it can make changes in 35 constituencies added in 2006; however, population has increased in all constituencies except for one; the Interim Constitution has made different provisions for delineating constituencies under its Article 63 (3) (A), and Article 154 (8); so, the CDC requested the four-party political mechanism for removing the constitutional hurdles to delineate constituencies, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
Accordingly, the four-party political mechanism formed a taskforce comprising Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Khim Lal Devkota of UCPN-Maoist, Dr Ram Saran Mahat and Dr Minendra Rijal of NC, Surendra Pandey and Agni Kharel of CPN-UML and Hridayesh Tripathi and Jitendra Dev of UDMF to look into the problems and suggest recommendations to resolve the problems. The taskforce has three days to do so.
