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Is Constitutional Crisis Looming?
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 25, 2010: Madhav Nepal has been the main obstacle to extending the term of the Constituent Assembly (CA) for the UCPN-Maoist leaders that have been blaming him for doing nothing for completing the peace process and for writing a new constitution. His stand on not for the CA writing a new constitution has been another bullet for the UCPN-Maoist to fire at him.
For the NC and CPN-UML leaders, Madhav Nepal has been the symbol of the unity for challenging the upsurge of the UCPN-Maoist leaders that have been arrogant for their victory in the elections and for their deeds of bringing Nepal to the current status of republic, federalism and so on. So, NC and CPN-UML leaders are not for removing him from the Prime Ministerial position even at the cost of the political crisis to the nation. Most probably, they believe that they could crush the Maoists if the need for it arises.
The UCPN-Maoist leaders have seen that they could launch a peaceful movement if the need for such thing arises for grabbing the power. So, they have been firmly standing on their demand for removing Prime Minister Madhav Nepal that has shamelessly stated that he is not for the CA writing a new constitution.
Both the parties say that they want the consensus politics but both of them don’t work for it. If it goes on, then certainly, the term of CA would expire on May 28, 2010.
What next? Most probably, the President and the Prime Minister would continue to work without the CA as if nothing has happened, and they would postpone the promulgation of a new constitution indefinitely making an indirect presidential rule.
The Maoists would perhaps launch a peaceful movement for the promulgation of a new constitution. Then, you know the peace and political stability would be upset. The Maoists as the leftists would fight against the NC and CPN-UML rightists. People would see who would win and who would lose. This time, perhaps some would even lose their heads for not working on the consensus politics. This is a worst political scenario we can see given the current trend of working of the political leaders of the both sides: right and left.
