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Nepalese constitution to be delivered on Sept. 20: CA chairman

Xinhua, September 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nepal has made all preparations to promulgate a new constitution on September 20, Chairman of the country's Constituent Assembly Subhash Nembang confirmed on Monday.

Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav is going to unveil the post- war constitution at 5 p.m. local time on September 20 amid an auspicious ceremony to be held at the Constituent Assembly building in Kathmandu, Nembang said.

"Now we are all set to bring out the new constitution on September 20. It will be a milestone document of the Nepali people which will institutionalize the democratic republic achieved through the people's movement," Chairman Nembang told Xinhua during an exclusive interview on Monday night.

He said that he is extending a formal invitation to President Yadav on Tuesday morning for unveiling the much-awaited new constitution.

Officials at the Constituent Assembly Secretariat informed Xinhua that the Constituent Assembly Chairman will certify the constitution before the president unveils the main charter.

This is going to be a first full-fledged constitution in the Himalayan nation after it became a democratic republic in 2008. Previously, an interim constitution has been issued in 2007.

Nepali parties had started work on the new national constitution in 2008, two years after the end of the 10-year-long civil war that claimed around 14,000 lives.

Nepal's constitution-making body, the 601-member Constitution Assembly, on Sunday started a clause-wise voting process on the constitution bill despite protests over the new constitution in Southern plains of the country in the past month.

The Constituent Assembly started voting on each and every article of the new constitution on Sunday. As of Monday, the 601- member CA approved 37 articles of the proposed document.

Nepal held elections to the second Constituent Assembly in November 2013 to deliver a new constitution after the first assembly, elected in 2008, failed to promulgate the national charter. Endi