Speaking in the CA meeting on Tuesday, the lawmakers said that the preliminary draft of the constitution coming as a historical draft with assurance of constitution promulgation through the CA was a positive step.

However, they said that some contents and terminologies in the draft should be amended.

On the occasion, Nepali Congress lawmaker Mahesh Acharya said that the draft is not the final one and many provisions are left for its correction.

Likewise, Nepali Congress lawmaker Sujata Koirala praised the draft for being very good, adding that the constitution should not be only for a handful of people.

She suggested ensuring the provision of providing citizenship under the name of both mother and father.

Lawmaker Narayan Prasad Saud said that respect for law and supremacy of the judiciary was a welcome step.

Similarly, CPN-UML lawmaker Bishnu Prasad Poudel said that constitution should be promulgated by this July, adding that the draft of constitution has brought about political stability. Expressing confidence that consensus should be forged regarding federalism, Poudel said the draft of constitution has also made the CA a success.

Lawmaker Gangalal Tuladhar of the CPN-UML suggested that provision of complete press freedom should be kept in the constitution.

Also speaking in the CA meeting, UCPN (Maoist) lawmaker Haribol Gajurel said that bringing the draft against the political consensus was unfortunate and added that this draft has not incorporated the issues of the agreements made by the erstwhile CA.

Janardan Sharma of the UCPN (Maoist) expressed his opinion for the directly-elected presidential system as the form of governance and asked to include the provision in the draft.

Likewise, Ram Kumar Subba of Rastriya Prajatantra Party asked to correct the provision of religious freedom stated in the draft.

Lawmaker Dulari Harijan said some provisions of the draft should be amended to make the constitution friendly for women, Dalit, physically-challenged and Janajati.

Lawmaker Bhishmanath Adhikari suggested establishing a commission for the restructuring of the local bodies.

Similarly, lawmaker Saroj Sharma said that the feedbacks of the people should be incorporated in constitution after receiving the public opinions.

Lawmaker Sushil Kumar Shrestha, however, demanded to sort out the issues of federalism and secularism through referendum. RSS