The Constituent Assembly meeting has been adjourned for 2 pm.

Voting on the constitution bill will resume after 2 pm after CA Chairman Subash Chandra Nembang announced the meeting postponement.

So far, 20 articles have been endorsed by the meeting since it convened at 11 am this morning. Three articles were endorsed by the meeting on Sunday.

Demand for Hindu nation rejected by majority

The amendment proposal submitted by Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal’s to declare Nepal as a Hindu nation by scrapping secularism as mentioned in the revised draft has been rejected by a majority during the voting at Constituent Assembly today.

The amendment proposal was put to vote after the party Chairman Kamal Thapa refused to withdraw his proposal. CA Chairman put the proposal on vote and was rejected by a voice majority.

Two other lawmakers—Bhaskar Bhada and Kumar Khadka—had also registered amendment proposals for Hindu state.

Thapa also demanded for a split voting on his proposal but received the backing of only 21 lawmakers. The CA rules requires 61 members for a proposal to be put on split voting.

Cow retained as national animal

CA has retained cow as a national animal after majority turned down the demand of replacing cow by a rhino as a national animal.

CA members Chitra Bahadur KC, Shiva Lal Thapa, Yasoda Kumari Lama, among others, had registered an amendment proposal to replace cow by a rhino as a national animal.