Monday, July 6, 2015
Agitating parties’ lawmakers boycott CA meet
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Kathmandu, July 6: Lawmakers of four agitating political parties have
boycotted the Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting today by expressing
discontent to the ‘Draft of Nepal’s Constitution 2072 BS’ tabled in the
CA.
Speaking at the beginning of the CA meeting,
lawmaker of the Federal Socialist Forum, Upendra Yadav, criticised the
draft of the new constitution saying that it has failed to incorporate
the spirit of the people’s movements waged in the past for the
democratic constitution with federalism.
He said that the draft of the constitution has done
injustice to the Madhesi in the issue of citizenship certificate,
discrimination was carried out on the basis of sex, and the issues of
positive discrimination were not put to uplift the Dalit, marginalised
groups, ethnic communities and women though it was supposed to do.
The issue of inclusion of the Interim Constitution
of Nepal, 2063 BS was omitted in this draft and proportional
participation, federalism, secularism, identity and other agendas agreed
before were also not mentioned in the draft of the new constitution,
Yadav said.
Saying that absence of provincial autonomy and
federalism without naming and delineation of the state was unfortunate
for the country, Yadav warned that moving ahead by going against the
directive of the Supreme Court (SC) was tantamount to push the country
towards crisis.
Yadav argued that this draft should not be forwarded
in status quo as the current draft prepared by declining the past
agreements could challenge national unity and push the country towards
conflict.
He announced the CA meeting boycott on behalf of
four parties claiming that the draft of the new constitution was silence
for the upliftment of marginalised community of Tarai. RSS
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