Students seek public pressure for constitution As part of joint protest of more than 15 student unions aligned to different political parties to press Constituent Assembly (CA) members to draft the constitution within the deadline, a sadak bahas (Street Discussion) was organised in Kathmandu today. The sadak bahas was organised on Exhibition Road in front of Ratna Rajya Campus. Leaders from various professional organisations participated in the discussion. They stressed on the need of pressure for a timely constitution. Hari Krishna Karki, president, Nepal Bar Association said there was high chance that the constitution would not be drafted by the January 22 deadline, thus the public needed to exert pressure from the street continuously. Dr Anjani Kumar Jha, president, Professional Alliance for Peace and Democracy (PAPAD) said, “There was need to exert huge public pressure as there was risk that the CA members would not meet the deadline for drafting the constitution.” Mahendra Bista, president, Federation of Nepali Journalists said the upcoming constitution would ensure the rights of people from all classes, ethnicities and geographical regions, thus they needed to exert pressure. Leaders from Nepali Congress aligned Nepal Students Union, CPN-UML aligned All Nepal National Free Students Union, UCPN-Maoist aligned All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary and others demanded a timely constitution and said they were going to continue the discussion and other protest programmes until the country got the constitution.

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Students seek public pressure for constitution

As part of joint protest of more than 15 student unions aligned to different political parties to

press Constituent Assembly (CA) members to draft the constitution within the deadline, a sadak bahas (Street Discussion) was organised in Kathmandu today. The sadak bahas was organised on Exhibition Road in front of Ratna Rajya Campus. Leaders from various professional

organisations participated in the discussion. They stressed on the need of pressure for a timely constitution.

Hari Krishna Karki, president, Nepal Bar Association said there was high chance that the

constitution would not be drafted by the January 22 deadline, thus the public needed to exert pressure from the street continuously.

Dr Anjani Kumar Jha, president, Professional Alliance for Peace and Democracy (PAPAD) said, “There was need to exert huge public pressure as there was risk that the CA members would not

meet the deadline for drafting the constitution.”

Mahendra Bista, president, Federation of Nepali Journalists said the upcoming constitution would ensure the rights of people from all classes, ethnicities and geographical regions, thus they

needed to exert pressure.

Leaders from Nepali Congress aligned Nepal Students Union, CPN-UML aligned All Nepal National Free Students Union, UCPN-Maoist aligned All Nepal National Independent Students

Union-Revolutionary and others demanded a timely constitution and said they were going to continue the discussion and other protest programmes until the country got the constitution.