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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 c…
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 establi…
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 scrapp…
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 go…
Slogan of Constitution Making: Weapon for Political Instability
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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 function…
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 it…
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 Consti…
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 goin…