According to the existing CA regulation, any draft prepared by the CA thematic committees can be forwarded to CC, mandated to prepare an integrated draft of the new constitution by incorporating all the 11 thematic drafts, only after resolving all the disputes pertaining to them.[break]
Owing to the regulation, the CA thematic committees, so far have forwarded only three of the 11 thematic drafts to the CC becasue the parties have failed to resolve disputes pertaining to the drafts.
The committee headed by Lawmaker Pushpa Bhusal of Nepali Congress (NC) was formed with a view to amend the provision itself. Leaders decided to amend the provision to make it possible to forward the drafts even without resolving the disputes.
"We have prepared the draft and submitted it to the speaker. It will come into effect once the amendment proposal will be endorsed by the majority at a CA meeting," Bhusal told Republica. CA is scheduled to meet on Monday.
After that the CC will try to resolve the disputes and also work to prepare a single draft. At the same time, attempts to resolve the disputes will also made by the all-party mechanism and informal meetings of the top leaders. If the CC and other mechanisms fail to settle the differences, the unresloved disputes will finally be tabled for a decision at the CA meetings through vote.
Ekraj Bhandari of UCPN (Maoist), Dhirendra Shrestha of CPN-UML, Brijesh Gupta of Tarai Madhes Democratic Party and Santa Bahadur Nepali of Rastriya Janamorcha were members of the committee.
This is the second amendment to the regulation. Though the original regulation had envisioned all 11 thematic drafts be forwarded to the CC together, the previous amendment made it possible to forward the drafts separately as and when the disputes pertaining them were resolved.
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