{"id":429701,"date":"2026-05-10T22:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=429701"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:25:47","slug":"constitution-amendment-taskforce-holds-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/05\/10\/429701.html","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Amendment Taskforce holds interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> An interaction was held between the Constitution Amendment Taskforce and various political parties and experts concerning the issue of constitutional amendment in the capital city on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the discussion programme organized by the Federalism and Localization Centre, leaders from various political parties and experts interacted with the constitutional amendment taskforce set up by the government, concentrating on the issues of federalism and state structure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohanlal Acharya, a Member of Parliament representing the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and a Member of the Constitution Amendment Taskforce, stated that all issues will be handled transparently at the grassroots level, and a draft of the amendment will be developed. He also proposed that an umbrella commission could be formed by consolidating several constitutional commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal Communist Party (NCP)&#8217;s leader and Taskforce Member Dev Prasad Gurung noted that it is imperative to implement reforms in line with contemporary needs and emphasised the importance of achieving a national consensus on the reforms. He pointed out that amending the constitution without national consensus could pose a challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepali Congress leader and constitutional expert Radhe Shyam Adhikari stated that federalism involves not just decentralisation but also the allocation of powers. He warned that a directly elected executive could invite risks in a country like Nepal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, CPN (UML) leader, Dr Bhishma Raj Adhikari, expressed doubts regarding the government&#8217;s motives for amending the constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Chief Minister of Madhes Province, Lal Babu Raut, asserted that federalism was established with the influence of Madhes Province and added that this issue is made weak and rendered ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: An interaction was held between the Constitution Amendment Taskforce and various political parties and experts concerning the issue of constitutional amendment in the capital city on Sunday. During the discussion programme organized by the Federalism and Localization Centre, leaders from various political parties and experts interacted with the constitutional amendment taskforce set up by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-429701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429702,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429701\/revisions\/429702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429701"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=429701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}