Although the first CA couldn't deliver the constitution, it laid a strong ground for a future constitution by, among other things, accomplishing huge volume of work related to constitution-making.
Leaders of all the major political forces have consistently claimed that the first CA had completed around 90 percent of the task.
Still, the CA-I is widely seen as failure by the public mainly because it couldn't solve the major contentious issues such as federalism, system of governance, electoral model and judiciary, and was dissolved without delivering a new constitution. Despite repeated extensions, the first CA couldn't make any substantive progress.
First elected in 2008 for two years, the CA-I was dissolved four years later in May 2012 without producing a constitution.
After a long wrangling among the major political parties, they decided to form an election government headed by the erstwhile Chief Justice Khilraj Regmi. The government successfully held elections for CA-II in November 19, 2013.
It took months to convene the first meeting of the CA-II, as the the UCPN (Maoist) and Madhes-based parties refused to accept the election results. The CA-II started its work only on January 22. As per the political agreement reached among the major political parties, the CA-II owned all the works done by the first CA and finished the all the oustanding task left incomplete by its predecessor. This was done despite frictions among political parties and groups.
Both the CA-I and CA-II saw several ups and downs during this eight year period.
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