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Independence of Judiciary: Under Threat, Again
"As there is a vacancy for over three dozen judges in Supreme Court, Appellate Courts and District Courts, Maoists appear to be in a rush to fill them with people close to them. However, Maoist considers the presence of senior advocate Motikazi Sthapit, as a…
Read More: Independence of Judiciary: Under Threat, Again »The Silent Cry
"When the country is passing through difficult times, the rulers should be sincere" Can Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who spearheaded the republican movement, dethroned the king and established himself as prime minister keep the new republic intact? If…
Read More: The Silent Cry »Slogan of Constitution Making Weapon for Political Instability
"Whenever politicians failed in power in the past, they had populist slogans in their hand to divert the attentions: changing the constitution. Without facing any problems, politicians had scrapped previous five constitutions and the current interim…
Read More: Slogan of Constitution Making Weapon for Political Instability »Constitutions galore
Populism in constitution making is not a new phenomenon. Hardly any systematic study exists in this area. But this phenomenon exists, and exists in the most powerful sense. Nepal is definitely going through this process. The latest case in point is Ecuador. A…
Read More: Constitutions galore »Opposition in the Constituent Assembly
It is already about five months that the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA), on 28 May 2008, to abolish monarchy and declare the country a republic, was held. The Assembly is functionally without job since then. There does not seem to be any hurry…
Read More: Opposition in the Constituent Assembly »Constituent Assembly threatened?
The recent assertion of Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal that Nepal will neither adopt a complete communist system of governance nor will it accept the system of parliamentary democracy within its traditional parameters has surprised many critiques about his…
Read More: Constituent Assembly threatened? »Controversies at Constituent Assembly
Disagreements over two major issues are said to be obstructing the passage of the draft Constituent Assembly Rules of Procedure. The first relates with the appropriate size of the proposed Constitution Drafting Committee and the second with the issues that…
Read More: Controversies at Constituent Assembly »Does Khasan deserve recognition?
Nepal has been declared a federal state by the Interim Constitution. Although this does not establish ethnicity as the fundamental principle of the federal system of government that Nepal is going to adopt, there is a strong possibility that ethnicity will be…
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