”Points to ponder as the Committee on Fundamental Rights discusses what rights should be inserted in the new constitution” A Boston-based group Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders announced their “Six by Twelve” campaign on the fifth anniversary of the…
”None of the parties in the CA seems to be interested in getting things rolling” Nepal’s Constituent Assembly (CA) is in its eighth month of existence. Even after this long period of inactivity, it appears none of the major political…
”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 yes,…
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…
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…
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 intentions.…
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…
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…
What once a courtier of King Charles II (1630 – 1685) of England wrote on the door of the Royal Bed Chamber remains more or less a fair description of the British constitutional monarchy even after centuries: “Here lies a…
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