PRACHANDA SUB-COMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION PROMULGATION ADJOURNED INDEFINITELY AFTER APPROVING SCHEDULE TO PROMULGATE BASCX LAW IN SIX MONTHS

INDUSTRIAL TRADE FAIR IN POKHARA

Kathmandu, 8 Dec.: An industrial trade fair gets underway in the resort town of Pokhara later Thursday.
Goods from home and abroad will be on display.
Sale of Rs.800 million is expected at the fair, organizers said.
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Russian ambassador to Nepal Sergey Vasilievich Velichkin on Wednesday has said that Nepal should draw a unique structure for federalism, without replicating the structure of other countries.
….diplomat Sergey said that the structure of federalism should be drawn on the basis of historicity, geographical necessities, cultural diversities and political movement of the country which defer from country to country.”

(A report in The Himalayan Times, 8 Dec.)
PRACHANDA SUB-COMMITTEE MEET ADJOURNED INDEFINITELY
Kathmandu, 8 Dec.: The day after UCPN (Maoist)Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal approved a schedule to promulgate a constitution within six months, the meetings of the controversial sub-committee headed by him has been adjourned indefinitely, Madhab Dhungel writes in Nagarik
On his behalf, Personal Secretary Shamir Dahal telephoned constitutional committee Secretary Tek Prasad Dhungana Tuesday at nine in the night and told him meetings were postponed indefinitely because of inadequate homework.
The first meeting to discuss schedule implementation has been affected.
Speaker Subash Nemwang said he was surprised ad saddened.
“The peace process is moving ahead. Constitution promulgation has been prioritized. For what reason is homework inadequate? The work shouldn’t have been adjourned,” Nemwang told Nagarik.
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