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Initially Seven, Then Nine And Now 11-member Commission On State Structuring
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 22, 2011: leaders of UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML, and of UDMF after a long discussion on the number of members and selection of the coordinator of the commission on state restructuring at the meeting held at the office of Ministry of Peace and Rehabilitation yesterday have ended it without any conclusion.
Initially, the government has proposed to form a seven-member commission on state restructuring with four representatives: one each from three major parties such as UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML, and one coordinator and three experts. The meeting of the three major parties and the Madheshi front has agreed on it.
When the three major political parties have started lobbying for making the person of their choice as a coordinator, then the Madheshi front has demanded to include its representative on the commission. So, the number of members of the commission will be at least nine including one coordinator. Three political parties will have one each and the UDMF has one and each of these four political parties will have one each expert on the commission making eight members and then the coordinator of the commission will be the ninth member. Some leaders are for increasing the number of members of the commission on state restructuring.
UCPN-Moist has proposed the names of Padma Ratna Tuladhar and Manik Lal Shrestha for selecting one of them as a coordinator of the commission; similarly, NC has proposed the names of Dr. Bimal Koirala and Kedar Bhakta Mathema, CPN-UML has proposed Ganeshman Gurung and Dr. Pitambar Sharma, ‘gorkhapatra’ of today writes.
The commission has to be formed within three days following the two-point deal the three major parties: UCPN-Maoist, NC and CPN-UML and the UDMF had reached on Friday, November 18, 2011
The commission probably resolves how many states to be made and what names should be given that have been in dispute so far. Once this is done then the draft of the new constitution will be almost final.
