May 29, 2011 नेपालको अन्तरिम संविधान, २०६३ लाई नवौंपटक संशोधन गर्नका लागि एउटा सरकारी विधेयक संविधानसभाको सचिवालयमा दर्ता गरिएको छ । आठौं संशोधनजस्तै नवौं संशोधनको उद्देश्य पनि संविधानको संशोधित धारा-६४ लाई पुनः संशोधन गरी संविधानसभाको कार्यावधिलाई पुनः अर्को…
२०६८ जेठ १४ आउन करिब एक महिना मात्र बाँकी छ । यो मितिसम्ममा संविधान जारी भइसक्नुपर्ने अन्तरिम संविधानको व्यवस्था हो । समयले छोपिसक्दा पनि नयाँ संविधान निर्माण गर्न ३ वर्षअघि निर्वाचन गरिएको संविधानसभाको भविष्यका बारेमा न त सरकारीस्तरमा स्पष्टता आउन सक्यो, न त…
February 19, 2011 With less than three and a half months to complete the unfinished task of constitution writing in Nepal, the level of political compromise between the country’s major political parties needed to get through the key issues is far from…
मंसीर २६, २०६७ संविधान निर्माणकार्यमा थुपि्रएका विभिन्न विवादास्पद पक्षमा सहयोग पुर्याउन कार्यरत उच्चस्तरीय राजनीतिक संयन्त्रमा भएका केही छलफलले प्रजातन्त्रको भविष्य देख्न चाहने जानकारहरूलाई चकित तुल्याइदिएको छ । अग्रगामी परिवर्तनका नाममा भइरहेका यी बहसका…
"त्यसैले अब के उपाय बाँकी छ त ? भन्ने प्रश्न स्वाभाविक रूपमा उपस्थित हुन्छ । प्रस्ट रूपमा भन्दा बारम्बार चुनाव गराएरै किनबेच र भाँडभैलोलगायतको प्रक्रियाबाट बहुमतको सरकार उपस्थित गराउनुको वैधानिक विकल्प यो संविधानमा छैन । यसलाई कि त सन् १७९९ को स्वघोषित दामोदर…
The weird electoral contest between UCPN (Maoist) chief Prachanda and Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudel for the post of prime minister scheduled to be held on August 2 is not surprising. This is a product of the defective constitution that Nepal has…
Political difficulties surrounding the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, despite the fact that he still holds a clear majority in the Constituent Assembly (CA), are more than obvious. What is not obvious is what is supposed to come next. In a…
"It is very dangerous to buy time looking for drastic changes in the balance of power in the country before letting the CA resume its work. To put it more categorically, any attempt towards helping a split in the UCPN (Maoist), supposedly to "rightsize" it in…
The position of prime minister in the model of democracy that Nepal is practicing is no longer powerful and exulted. He does have many powers, as far as theory goes, but he can exercise them only upon the aid and advice of others, seen or unseen in the formal…
Back to April 24, 2006 — the date has historical importance. If an unruly mass of people, ignoring the rule of law and the constitution, can force the reinstatement of the parliament which had long been dissolved, can't a similar protest pull the government…