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150 teens launch protest for timely constitution drafting

Xinhua, January 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Over 150 youth cadres of the Youth Force Nepal (YFN), a sister wing of Nepal's ruling party, the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), removed shirts in their demonstration Saturday in Nepal's Capital Kathmandu.

The youth protest came at a time when Nepal's political parties have just five days left to meet the deadline of Jan. 22 for promulgating the new constitution.

The teens rallied in front of the Constituent Assembly building at 1:00 p.m. local time on Saturday, chanting slogans.

"Our demonstration was to exert pressure on major parties for timely statute," spokesperson of the YFN, Prabhak Bikram Katwal, told Xinhua. Endi