CA polls in November

A top-level meeting of the eight parties Thursday agreed to hold elections to constituent assembly (CA polls) in the third week of November and asking the Electoral Constituency Delineation Commission (ECDC) to review its report.

The meeting decided that Prime Minister will fix the exact elections date after consultations with the Election Commission (EC). Earlier the CA polls scheduled for mid-June was postponed after the EC expressed its inability of holding it due to lack of legislations and other preparations.

According to Janamorcha Nepal leader Amik Sherchan, the CPN-UML however objected to the decision of extending the term of the commission. Likewise, Maoists wrote note of decent on the decision to hold CA polls in November. The Nepal Sadbhawana Party wrote a note of decent on today’s decision, demanding that a fully proportional electoral system should be adopted for the CA polls.

Likewise, the meeting agreed to formulate all necessary laws for CA polls within two weeks.

The meeting had, as per the recommendations by the taskforce, decided to ask the ECDC led by former Supreme Court judge Arjun Prasad Singh to review its report in view of growing demands by Madhesi MPs to annul it. The Madhesi MPs have been stalling the parliament by putting forth this demand.