Miscellaneous
Election of CA committee chairs on April 25
Constituent Assembly (CA) has set April 25 as the date for the election of the chairman of the CA committees.Ekantipur Report
Chairman of the CA, Subas Chandra Nembang, on Monday announced the date of the elections after the top three parties failed to reach an agreement on the selection of the committee's chairmen through consensus
The Parliament Secretariat will publish the election schedule today, informed spokesperson of the CA Secretariat Mukunda Sharma. According CA calendar of events, the five committees under the CA should elect their heads before April 28.
As per the agreements among the parties, UCPN (Maoist) would head the Political Dialogue and Consensus Committee; Nepali Congress (NC) would head the Constitution Drafting Committee while the CPN-UML would lead the Committee to Study and Determine Constitutional Records.
The top three parties have agreed to hand over the leadership of the Committee on Citizen and Public Opinion Collection and Committee on Capacity Building and Resource Management to fringe and Madhes-based parties.
There are only five committees in the current CA as compared to 14 committees in the disbanded CA.