Rajendra mahato enter rangeli with high security

भिडियो हेर्न तलको बक्सभित्र किल्क गर्नुहोस

The Legislature-Parliament today made the first amendment of the Constitution of Nepal four months after its promulgation ensuring proportional inclusion for backward communities in state bodies and increasing the number of constituencies in the Tarai region.

The two Articles amended today were: Article 42 (1) and Article 286 (5).

It took three-and-half months to pass the bill after it was registered by the erstwhile Nepali Congress-led government on October 7.

The original bill was amended through amendment proposals registered by mainly two groups of lawmakers of Nepali Congress led by Minendra Rijal and Farmullah Mansur.

From among the 24 amendment proposals registered on the bill, 21 were withdrawn today after the parties agreed to pass an integrated proposal.

Three proposals registered by Prem Suwal of NWPP, Durga Paudel of Rastriya Janamorcha Party and Jay Dev Joshi of CPN-United were rejected by majority vote.

A meeting of the House endorsed the Bill on First Amendment of the Constitution of Nepal with comfortable two-third majority amid disagreement from the agitating Madhes-based parties. Although these were the two key demands of the agitating Madhes-based parties, they protested in the well and walked out chanting slogans against the bill as soon as it was put to vote.

Of the 596 members of Parliament, 468 took part in voting and among them 461 voted in favour of the bill while seven voted against it. The seven MPs include Deputy Prime Minister and Rastriya Janamorcha Party leader Chitra Bahadur KC and his party’s lawmakers Mina Pun and Durga Paudel and four members of Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party – Narayan Man Bijukche, Prem Suwal, Dilli Prasad Kafle and Anuradha Thapa Magar.