By Prensa Latina,
Kathmandu : The three main Nepali parties and leaders from Madhesi agreed today to present before the Constituent Assembly another proposed constitutional amendment to fulfill the autonomic demands of this southern region.
The settlement between the communist parties of Nepal, the Maoist (CPN-M), the Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) and the Nepalese Congress (NC) was possible after the Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF), and the Sadbhawana and Democratic Tarai Madhes agreed to make its positions more flexible.
People from the region sidestepped the One Madhes One State stance, interpreted here as a door to secession and separatism in this newfound republic of the Himalaya.
This controversy slows work of the Assembly, which has to approve a package of 22 amendments to the temporary Constitution to elect its leader, the prime minister, the president and the vice president, and to constitute the new government.
The CPN-M, CPN-UML and the NC majority parties insisted the future Magna Carta should include autonomous aspirations of other ethnic communities of Mahdes.
This region, also called Tarai, is a strip of some 40 km along the South Nepal border with India. Population is mainly Indian Hindu, though other communities coexist there.