As there was no progress on the peace and constitution-drafting process, Congress, UML and other 16 political parties not in the governing coalition and UCPN (M) appeared in opposing corners. The opposition parties concluded that ‘the Maoists had backed down from the peace and constitution-drafting process’ and ‘peace process is obstructed because the government and…

There was an agreement in principle in the sub-committee for dispute resolution on directly elected president and prime minister elected from the parliament. There was also an agreement to outline the authorities of the president and prime minister in the constitution. Talking to journalists after the meeting of the sub-committee for dispute resolution on December…

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and chairperson of the Constituent Assembly (CA) Subash Nemwang filed separate petitions at the Supreme Court seeking a review of the Court’s judgement on the CA term that it will automatically come to end if the constitution is not promulgated within the stipulated time. In the petitions, they had sought the…

After the regrouping of the Maoist combatants, the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) submitted a timetable for integration into the Nepal Army, voluntary retirement, and rehabilitation of the combatants; however, the peace process could not move forward after disagreement among UCPN (M), Congress, and UML. The three parties could not agree on vacating the Maoist…

The meeting of the sub-committee for dispute resolution under the Constitutional Committee on December 15, 2011 reached a ‘consensus on land ceiling, but any land acquisitioned beyond this the land ceiling will be compensated’. The parties also agreed to not put a ceiling private property but to tax them. UCPN (M) was in favour of…