KATHMANDU, NOV 03 - Ruling parties—Nepali Congress and CPN-UML—have jointly floated a proposal of seven-state model at the meeting of Political Dialogue and Consensus Committee (PDCC) in the Capital on Monday.
Major opposition party UCPN (Maoist) and other Madhesh-based parties have disapproved the NC-UML proposal on federalism .
Tabling the proposal at today’s PDCC meeting, Prime Minister and NC President Sushil Koirala and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli said that the proposal of the two parties, however, was not final. “We have started deliberations so as to draft new constitution by January 22,” said NC Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel quoting Koirala and Oli, “Do not take it as the final proposal.”
Emerging from the PDCC meeting, UCPN (M) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal remarked that the NC-UML proposal did not have ‘smell of federalism ’. “This can be understood as converting the five developmental regions into seven states or reducing the 14 zones into seven,” Dahal said.
He accused the two ruling parties of bringing in the proposal on federalism by retreating from the past agreements. The meeting of the PDCC has been put off for half an hour today.according to ekantipur
Major opposition party UCPN (Maoist) and other Madhesh-based parties have disapproved the NC-UML proposal on federalism .
Tabling the proposal at today’s PDCC meeting, Prime Minister and NC President Sushil Koirala and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli said that the proposal of the two parties, however, was not final. “We have started deliberations so as to draft new constitution by January 22,” said NC Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel quoting Koirala and Oli, “Do not take it as the final proposal.”
Emerging from the PDCC meeting, UCPN (M) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal remarked that the NC-UML proposal did not have ‘smell of federalism ’. “This can be understood as converting the five developmental regions into seven states or reducing the 14 zones into seven,” Dahal said.
He accused the two ruling parties of bringing in the proposal on federalism by retreating from the past agreements. The meeting of the PDCC has been put off for half an hour today.according to ekantipur
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