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No Need For Jumbo CA: Says Koirala
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 19, 2013: speaking at the launching of ‘Pragyaprabhat’: a mouthpiece of Democratic Teachers Association Nepal, Prithivi Narayan Campus Unit Committee in Pokhara today, president of NC Sushil Koirala said that a jumbo Constituent Assembly (CA) was not necessary for drafting a new constitution; and it was not sure that a new inclusive constitution would be promulgated if there were too many CA members. “The dissolved CA failed to promulgate a new constitution even when it had 601 CA members,” said Koirala, adding that a jumbo CA was not necessary if the political parties opted for inclusiveness, according to ‘gorkhapatraonline.com’.
“NC became the second largest party in the earlier CA election due to internal faction and idiosyncratic nature of some leaders,” he said, expressing his commitment not to let the same thing happen in the upcoming CA polls again.
Mr Koirala believes that he can craft a constitution; so, no need for the representation of other ethnic groups in the CA thus he wants to be a junior Jung Bahadur Rana opting for the exclusive party rule. He does not see the need for the representation of the ethnic groups and minor communities in the CA believing that he could take care of them. Mr Koirala wants his party’s rule but ethnic Nepalis would not let him do so.
Chairman of the Interim Election Council of Ministers Khil Raj Regmi, and Chairman of the UCPN-Maoist Prachanda today held talks on the latest political problem and possible solution to it. They discussed the threshold of minimum votes, number of constituencies, and whether a convicted person could be a candidate for the CA slot in the election, among others.
General Secretary of CPN-Maoist Ram Bahadur Thapa has said that his party is not against talks and election. He, however, put forward impossible-to-meet demand for scrapping of the 25-point ordinance, dissolution of the four-party mechanism and formation of an election government under the leadership of political parties through a roundtable conference for the talks, according to gorkhapatraonline.com.
