The CA election held on 10 April 2008 gave no clear majority any party. The parties who had gone to the election with promise “to write new election in two years” were given the message to “write the constitution in […]

With the signing of the 12-Point Agreement between parliamentary political parties and the then CPN(M) on 22nd November 2005, the CPN(M) entered into open politics, by ending the decade-long insurgency started on 13th February, 1996, targeted against the multiparty democratic […]

The schedule of the CA had to be amended three times to give completion to the thematic committees. It was only on 13 January 2009 when all the committees got their chairpersons that the constitution-drafting process came back on “track”. […]

Not only are the Constituent Assembly (CA) members divided in multiple groups based on their political ideologies, but also sharply along their ethnicity, sexual orientation, geography, sector and occupation. Therefore, there is a tough polarisation inside the CA in these […]

The big three political parties, UCPN(M), Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), are not taking into consideration the role of smaller political parties. That they do not seek the role of smaller political parties in the constitution-drafting process is proved by […]