By Xinhua,
Kathmandu : The Nepali government has decided to table a supplementary bill to the Fifth Amendment bill of the Interim Constitution at Saturday’s Constituent Assembly meeting, according to local media.
However, the protesting Madhesh-based parties would continue their protest as their demands were not met by the bill, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported Saturday.
“We condemn the decision of the seven parties as they have violated earlier agreements with us. We will continue our protest,” Upendra Yadav, chairman of the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF), the fourth largest party in the newly elected Constituent Assembly (CA), was quoted as saying.
The Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) government made the decision to table the draft of the supplementary bill on Friday.
But, of the seven parties, three fringe parties — People’s Front Nepal, Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party and the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) — did not uphold the decision.
The Madhesh-based parties including the MPRF, Terai Madhesh Democratic Party and Sadbhawana Party, which with more than 80 legislators in the CA are relatively active in south Nepal’s Teraiplains area, started obstructing the House proceedings since June 26.
The government had registered the Fifth Amendment bill to the interim constitution, which specifies the provision of appointing President, vice President, Prime Minister and Chairman of the CA by simple majority instead of two thirds majority, on June 25 at the secretariat of the legislature parliament.