There were clear policies in place to manage the constitution-drafting process. These processes had been the results of long discussions and consultations, which had laid the course for drafting the constitution. Following the laid-out processes would have guaranteed the new […]

The Constituent Assembly (CA) sittings went through indefinite postponements 20 times due to lack coordination and consensus among the parties. After the fourth sitting of the CA on June 18, 2008, the then-chairperson Kul Bahadur Gurung had indefinitely postponed the […]

A prime minister could not be selected even after seventh round of elections. Major political parties UCPN (M), Nepali Congress, and UML were more focused on getting the seat of the government rather than on drafting the constitution. Attempts to […]

A seven-member high-level taskforce comprising of senior leaders from seven political parties was formed when consensus could not be reached in the thematic committees of the CA, meetings of the CA, and discussions in the report studying committees and constitution-drafting […]

There was difference of opinion among the three parties, UCPN (M), Nepali Congress, and CPN (UML), regarding the extension of CA deadline. Congress and UML were in favour of extending the deadline, while UCPN (M) was not in favour of […]