Music, films, art, shows, people What the stars have in store for you Send messages to your loved ones Catch the happenings in your city KATHMANDU, MAY 15, 2006, Jestha 1, 2063 ARCHIVE SECTION Search || Advanced Search :: Home :: National :: City :: Business :: Neighbours :: Sports :: Edit :: Important Nos. :: Stocks :: Forex :: Flight Schedule :: Cinema :: Weather Click to view complete edition PDFs HOME Leaders for Federal State Structure THT Online Kathmandu, May 15: Political leaders on Sunday said restructuring the state into a federal system could solve problems faced by the deprived communities of the nation. This was stated at an interaction on Issue of Inclusion in Constituent Assembly organised by the Central regional office Kathmandu of INSEC here on Sunday. General secretary of Nepali Congress (Democratic), Bimalendra Nidhi, opined that the state should go for federal system instead of present unitary and centralised state mechanism. Stating that his party was also for federal system he said the election system, however, needs to be mixed. Yadav further said no party is clear about the modality of constituent assembly. "Our party is for Federal Democratic Republic." Bharat Bimal Yadav of Nepal Sadbhawana Party (Anandi Devi) also said federal system can only solve the issues of inclusion. He also demanded that the problem of citizenship certificates should be solved before going to the election to constituent assembly. An expert, Vijay Kant Karna, presenting a paper on Constitution Assembly: Concept for discussion said participation of women, Janajatis, Dalits and Madhesi people is not possible under present political and legislative structure. To create new structure in political system is very pertinent for participation of all disadvantaged groups. Since 237 years Nepal has been practicing unitary political and cultural system that tried to destroy plural, socio-cultural structure of the country. According to Karna's paper some of the policies introduced to consolidated political and cultural power in the hands of dominant hill Brahmin and Chhetris community include imposition of monolingual policy, state sponsored migration, denial of citizenship rights, destruction and negligence of cultural heritage sites other than Khas and creation of private army (Royal Nepalese Army). The paper added that de-recognition of culture of other communities except Khas, considering Hindu religion as state religion and creating a political and administrative system to debar disadvantaged groups were also adopted in the past. Karna proposed to adopt both the methods of proportional and Majoritrian representation in the election to the constituent assembly. Arjun Narsingh KC of Nepali Congress said his party was seriously discussing about inclusion and the restructuring of the state. "This is the first time that Nepali people are discussing ove the constituent assembly to this extent," Modh Nath Prashrit of CPN UML said adding that his party is also discussing on how the disadvantaged groups could be included. While Himaldhan Rai of CPN ML said the works should begin by distributing land to the landless people. Print This Story Email To Friends Send Your Comments Back To Archive Back to current date Rs 1.6m Looted from Nava Kantipur Finance MMC Lose 0-2 to Kyrgyz Club in AFC President’s Cup Govt Asked to Decide on CA Polls Soon Make Public Our Missing Cadres: ANNISU-R Front Meet Fails to Finalise HoR Declaration Nepal to be a Secular State: PM Koirala Valley Likely to Face Short Supply of LPG Dalits Deprived of Citizenship Certificates Leaders for Federal State Structure Search for Missing German Trekker to Intensify House to clip King’s wings today Maoists pledge not to attack scribes Maoist inmates start hunger strike in Valley CAAN grounds tipsy Karnali Air pilot Telescope on seabed to probe Earth ABOUT US | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | ADVERTISE WITH US | FEEDBACK | DISCLAIMER COPYRIGHT 2004 THE HIMALAYAN TIMES. All rights reserved.