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Going To Vote On State Restructuring And Form Of Governance
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 13, 2012: leaders of UCPN-Maoist, NC, and CPN-UML, and of UDMF: alliance of Madheshi political parties obviously could not build a consensus on ‘State Restructuring And Form Of Governance’; so, they have been preparing for going to vote on these two important matters of a new constitution at the Constituent Assembly.
Rather than compromising their stand on these two important subject matters, leaders are willing to test their strength in the Constituent Assembly. The chance of the coalition of the UCPN-Maoist and UDMF winning the majority of votes for their proposals is higher if they go together for voting at the Constituent Assembly.
Previous media report on the parties are closer to 11 provinces has been totally wrong. Every political leader gave the optimistic views over the agreement on various contentious issues. Now, it is clear that the leaders have spent most of their time on doing nothing concrete but talking too much.
Meanwhile, the Dispute Resolution Sub-committee has completed formulating two kinds of questionnaires, the committee will send the questionnaires to the Constitutional Committee (CC), which needs to endorse them before taking them to the Constituent Assembly for voting on them, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
At the same time, the far western region has remained shutdown due to the call of the locals demanding the undivided far western region. The representatives of the struggle committee of the far western region arrived in Kathmandu and started off talking to the government’s ‘talks team’ at the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction yesterday, however, they have not been able to reach any agreement so far.
Speaking at an interaction event held by the BP Koirala Academy in Kathmandu yesterday, NC leaders have said that ethnic-based provincial names go against nationalism and national identity; BP’s principles should be followed to keep the country united, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes. Unfortunately, these NC leaders are dragging the name of BP to such contentious issue
Elsewhere protests have been going on pro-and-against the ethnic-based provincial names.
The Limbuwan Struggle Committee has held a protest rally in Damak and Jhapa demanding nine districts of the region declared a Limbuwan state. Other ethnic people have participated in the rally.
Similarly, Tharu Joint Struggle Committee has held a rally in Chitwan demanding the Terai of Nepal declared a Tharuhat state.
The Thami Joint Struggle Committee has called a shutdown in Dolakha demanding a state for them, too.
Meanwhile, Tamang leaders, associated with different parties, and academicians of the community objected to the rallies against the ethnic and regional identity-based federalism. NC leader Bhim Bahadur Tamang, Maoist leader Hit Bahadur Tamang, general secretary of CPN-Unified Sitaram Tamang, CPN-UML central leader Bir Bahadur Lama, lawmakers Kumari Moktan, Dawa Tamang and others signed off a statement and released it in Kathmandu demanding a unified Tamsaling, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
Similarly, the newly elected chairman of National Muslim Commission Mohammed Nirdosh Ali said that the Muslim community was against the ethnic based state, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
At the press conference held in Kathmandu, the Brahmin-Chhetri Struggle Committee has issued a three-day ultimatum to the government to address their demands otherwise they would continue their movement for recognizing them as the indigenous people according to the news posted on myrepublica.com today.
