Monday, January 18, 2010

Reach a consensus regarding

A committee under the Constituent Committee for System of Governance on Monday submitted its concept paper and preliminary report to CA chairman Subash Nembang. Chairman Sambhu Hajara Dusadh submitted the report.
The report comprises all the proposals backed by the three different political parties regarding the governance and electoral system as even the election failed to deal with them. The Maoists were of the view that the country should get a directly elected president while the NC and UML demanded an executive prime minister elected through the parliament and a ceremonial president. In the same way, Terai Madhes Democratic Party backed the concept of president elected by the federal parliaments.
The CA lawmakers will hold a broad discourse from January 24 before the concept gets the final nod.
The parties failed to reach a consensus regarding the issue as they stuck to their demands, as a result none of the proposals were able to garner a majority. The matter was furthermore worsened as the election failed to resolve it.
With this, ten thematic committees of the total 11 submitted their preliminary reports so far with State Restructuring and Power Sharing being the sole exception.
However, the report failed to garner the full support of its 43 members as some of the UML lawmakers and member Saroj Kumar Yadav have not signed the report। Yadav is out of the valley while the UML lawmakers lost a common stance that they had a long time ago, which resulted in them boycotting the last meeting and refusing to sign the report.