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

1. 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.