Constitutional Reform – 2009
2009
All members of the Constitutional Committee, as well as the members of the Legislature-Parliamentary Committee, were elected by 13 January 2009. Mr. Madhav Kumar Nepal, a senior leader of the Communist Party Nepal-United Marxists Leninists, was unanimously elected Chair of the CC. In the process of drafting the constitution, 40 teams comprised of CA members visited all 75 districts to solicit public opinion on constitution.1 Despite all these efforts, the constitution making process faced major obstacles, as the predominant political parties could not find a common ground on many issues including federalism, the modality of government, the management of arms, and the Maoist combatants. Moving from the national consensus government to a majoritarian government posed the greatest obstacle in the constitutional writing process.