Miscellaneous
46 proposals registered against amendment bill
Forty-six proposals have been registered in the parliament against the constitution amendment bill as the time window provided to register the proposals nears to an end.Forty-six proposals have been registered in the parliament against the constitution amendment bill as the time window provided to register the proposals nears to an end.
Thirty-one proposals have been registered by the main opposition CPN-UML while the remaining proposals were registered by other fringe parties.
The ruling parties, in an agreement with Madhesi parties, had agreed to register amendment proposals to the bill but no proposals have been registered so far. The time to register an amendment to the bill ends at 10 pm on Saturday.
PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal had summoned an all-party meeting on Friday to forge consensus on the bill while Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba had reached UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli's residence in Balkot hoping to find a solution.
Oli, however, rejected Deuba's request to support the bill.