1 Jan, Dhangadhi: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP)’s executive chairman Kamal Thapa has said the constitution amendment bill that has been registered in the Legislature-Parliament cannot be supported in status-quo.
Addressing a press conference organised here on Saturday, he explained that it would be difficult to have the bill endorsed as the main opposition party, the CPN (UML), was obstructing the parliament in protest against it has charged that some clauses of the bill are against national interest, and the Madhesi parties too were dissatisfied with it.
The RPP chairman stressed that the government should work towards forging consensus by putting the bill on hold. He claimed that the latest talks among the parties regarding the constitution amendment had rather led to the possibility of the country heading towards a confrontation rather than resolving the problem.
The RPP executive chairman, along with the party’s national chairman Pashupati Shamsher Rana and leader and Minister for Supplies Deepak Bohara have arrived here today in connection with participating in the RPP’s regional meet to be held in Mahendranagar on Sunday. RSS
