Nepal’s upper house endorses proposal to consider amendment to update new political map

Kathmandu, June 14

Nepal Parliament’s higher home on Sunday endorsed a proposal to debate the Constitution Amendment Bill to replace the nation’s new political map that features three strategically key Indian territories, a day after the decrease home unanimously voted in favour of the Bill.

Nepal’s ruling and opposition political events on Saturday voted in unison to amend the Constitution to replace the nationwide emblem by incorporating the controversial map incorporating Lipulekh, Kalapani and Limpiyadhura in India’s Uttrakhand, a transfer described by New Delhi as “untenable”.

Of the whole 275 lawmakers within the House of Representatives on Saturday, all 258 lawmakers current in the home voted in favour of the Constitution Amendment Bill.

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Now, the Bill will endure the same course of within the National Assembly, whereby the ruling Nepal Communist Party instructions two-thirds majority.

Rajendra Phuyal, secretary of the National Assembly Secretariat, tabled the Bill on the first assembly of the higher home on Sunday, The Kathmandu Post reported.

During the second assembly of the National Assembly in a while Sunday, Law Minister Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe tabled a proposal to contemplate the Bill for discussions, the paper mentioned.

After the discussions, the proposal to contemplate the Bill was unanimously endorsed, it added.

The National Assembly will give lawmakers 72 hours to maneuver amendments in opposition to the Bill’s provisions, if they’ve any.

“We are making necessary preparations to endorse the bill within the next four days,” Phuyal was quoted as saying by the paper.

After the National Assembly passes the Bill, it is going to be submitted to the President for authentication, after which it is going to be integrated within the Constitution. After that, the brand new map will probably be utilized in all official paperwork, together with the coat of arms.

Meanwhile, the principle Opposition Nepali Congress has urged the federal government to accentuate diplomatic efforts to make sure the nation’s rights within the Kalapani space after the nation contains its up to date political and administrative map within the Constitution, the Himalayan Times reported.

In a press assertion on Saturday, the social gathering mentioned the “campaign to reclaim encroached territories would enter the second phase after the revised map incorporating Limpiyadhura, Lipulek and Kalapani areas as its parts, gets endorsed and this would mark a significant solidarity in the issue of nationality.”

Reacting to Kathmandu’s transfer, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava mentioned on Saturday “this artificial enlargement of claims is not based on historical fact or evidence and is not tenable. It is also violative of our current understanding to hold talks on outstanding boundary issues.” The India-Nepal bilateral ties got here beneath pressure after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated 80-km-long strategically essential highway connecting the Lipulekh cross with Dharchula in Uttarakhand on May 8.

Nepal reacted sharply to the inauguration of the highway claiming that it handed by means of Nepalese territory. India rejected the declare asserting that the highway lies utterly inside its territory.

Nepal final month launched the revised political and administrative map of the nation laying declare over the strategically key areas, greater than six months after India revealed a brand new map in November 2019.

India had then sternly requested Nepal to not resort to any “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims. — PTI