The committee formed to draft regulations for the Constituent Assembly (CA) has finalised them, Sunday evening.
The regulations were finalised after the much-disputed issue of whip was settled earlier by the four big parties who agreed to let the rules remain silent on that issue.
The regulations were finalised by the committee headed by Narayan Man Bijukchhe in its meeting held on Sunday evening in presence of CA chair Subas Nemwang.
The CA regulations state that the process and provision on impeachment against president and vice president will be as per the constitution.
The regulations also have provisions on forming various subject wise committees, methods of passing bills on constitution, ways of their authentication and so on.
The regulations will now be passed by the CA paving the way for starting the process of writing new constitution.
In absence of the regulation, the process of writing the constitution could not start even eight months after the CA election.
The major sticking point was the system of whip. However, the issue was settled when a few days ago, the big four parties – Maoists, Unified Marxist Leninist (UML), Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) and Nepali Congress (NC) – had agreed not to have any reference to system of party whip in the Constituent Assembly (CA) rules.
“We have decided against any reference toward whip. This means there will not be whip system,” said Dinanath Sharma, chief whip of the Maoists.
Chief whip of opposition NC, Laxman Prasad Ghimire, had added that the parties will have their own provision regarding whip in their respective party statutes. “In party statutes, it will be clear on which matters the parties need to issue whip and on which matters the individual members will be allowed to exercise their conscience,” he said.
Earlier, NC, Maoists and UML were in favour of whip system while MJF and other smaller parties, particularly Madhesi parties, favoured allowing members to vote their conscience on important matters during constitution writing. nepalnews.com sd Nov 10 08