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April 10 for Holding CA Elections
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The government in the cabinet meeting held on Friday, January 11, 2008, decided to set April 10, 2008 the date of holding the election for a constituent assembly (CA). This will give approximately 90 days to the Election Commission for making preparation for the election. The Chief of the Election Commission has been telling the government in public that the Election Commission needs at least 90 days for preparing to hold the election.
The CA is for drafting a new constitution of Nepal and then promulgating it. The number of CA members is set at 601. It will have adequate representation of all ethnic and regional Nepalese groups according to the leaders of the seven-party alliance. Some members will be directly elected others will be based on a proportional representation system. However, some ethnic and Madheshi Nepalese groups are not satisfied with the electoral system, and have been demanding a fully proportional representation of all ethnic and Madheshi Nepalese groups.
In 1951, the then-tripartite meeting of the Nepali Congress leaders, king Tribhuvan and outgoing Rana Prime Minister held in New Delhi, India had decided to hold an election for a CA to make a Constitution of Nepal. However, the then-king Tribhuvan and his successors did not hold a CA election rather monopolized the power and continued the oppression of Nepalese people until the April Movement in 2006.
