With an almost three-month-old agitation by the Madhes-based groups aimed at securing changes in Nepal’s new Constitution again turning violent, Nepal’s major political parties on Monday decided to table a Bill in Parliament to amend the statute thereby addressing the 11-point demands-charter of the protestors, it was announced here.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the three major parties, the Nepali Congress, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxists-leninists) [CPN-UMl] and Unified Communist Party of Nepal (UCPN)-Maoist, held at Prime Minister Sharma Oli’s official residence Baluwatar amid escalating protests by the Madhesis in the southern Nepali Terai region bordering India, Xinhua news agency reported.
“We decided to table the Bill in Parliament to make amendments in the Constitution to accommodate the demands of the Madhesis,” UCPN (Maoist) vice-chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha said.