Will the pluralism-based federal democratic republic, specified in the Peace Agreements and Interim Constitution-2007, be overshadowed in the new constitution? The UCPN (M)-advocated views on executive, legislative, and judiciary are starting to raise such questions, which cannot be swept aside […]

During the 2006 people’s movement, there was a common understanding among many professionals, retired politicians, NGO workers, human rights workers, lawyers, professors, journalists, artists, and respected independent personalities against the tyrannical rule of the kings and end to the armed […]

Although there have been discussions on the reports prepared by the ten thematic and the Constitutional Committee of the Constituent Assembly (CA), the constitution-drafting process has not been proceeding ahead. Despite extensive debate in the CA meeting, the main reason […]

Discussions with common people at the local level on issues of restructuring, inclusiveness, form of government seem pragmatic because the people neither express any trace of resistance/rigidity nor antipathy out of prejudice. They just wish for the social harmony based […]

On 28th April, 2010, the people of Nepal had elected 601 representatives for drafting a new constitution drafting, and these representatives themselves went to districts and Village Development Committees (VDC) with a bag of questionnaires in order to incorporate people’s […]