Statute amendment bill registered in House

June 6, 2007
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The government has registered the Interim Constitution- Second Amendment Bill at the legislative parliament on Wednesday evening.

Earlier, the Council of Ministers had approved the bill, which incorporates a new timetable (November this year) of constituent assembly election.

The cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar in the afternoon had passed the amendment bill and decided to table it in the interim parliament.

The eight parties had decided to go with the second amendment in the interim statute following a consensus to push the mid-June polls deadline, as stated in the constitution, to November.

The second amendment also includes provisions about reviewing the report of Electoral Constituency Delineation Commission (ECDC) and banning the suppressors of last year’s people’s movement, who have been pinpointed in the Rayamajhi Commission’s report, from contesting CA election. The Commission’s report had named around 200 persons as being guilty of suppression.

Similarly, the cabinet meeting also decided to write to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to review its decision to withdraw its assistance in the Melamchi Drinking Water Project. “We have decided to request the ADB to start Melamchi at the soonest based on understanding between the bank and the government,” said Minister for Works and Physical Planning Hisila Yami.

Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Information Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who leads the Maoist team in the government, were absent from the cabinet meeting. Koirala did not attend the meeting due to bad health while Mahara was ‘busy’ in a prescheduled programme.