No Constitutional Amendment in sight, Samajwadi Coalition in Oblivion

PM Oli has not yet agreed upon constitutional amendment which has disgruntled the Deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav and Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai. The parties main agenda was to have the constitutional amendment bill tabled at the parliament in a jiffy, but apparently things seem to go otherwise.

According to PMO sources Federal Affairs Minister Bhanubhakta Dhakal has briefed the Prime Minister to this regard about absolute discontent within its coalition members from the Samajwadi Party led by DPM Yadav.

Dr. Bhattarai, who is the Chairman of the Federal Council of the Samajwadi Party, has been salient regarding the issue, and has been applying pressure to Yadav to pull out of the existing coalition.

This has escalated to a point where crucial constituents have been largely dissatisfied which include a large population of Madhes. A prolonged year with the government and the amendment is not in sight. Earlier the Rastriya Janata Party Nepal (RJPN) had withdrawn its support to the government for its failure to keep its promise of amending the constitution.

The amendment includes demarcation, citizenship and identity rights for the people of Madhes where most of them are economically backward. The RJPN also accused the government of not withdrawing cases filed against those arrested during the Madhes movement and neglected on medical treatment of those individuals injured during the protests.

RJPN had dropped its support to the government just hours after the District Court of Kailai convicted their parliamentary representative Resham Lal Chaudhary in the gruesome killing of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Laxman Neupane and seven other security personnel along with a two year old girl child, in Tikapur back in 2015.