KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 5

The Upendra Yadav-led Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal today unveiled its 35-page election manifesto expressing commitment to directly elected presidential form of government and fully proportional election system to ensure political stability in the country.

Party Chair Upendra Yadav said at the manifesto launch programme that the party would seek amendment to the constitution to establish 10 territorial and one non-territorial provinces on the basis of identity and capability as recommended by the majority report of the erstwhile State Restructuring Commission. He also said the party would seek amendment to the constitution to make the judiciary federal, which hitherto was unitary.

Party Chair Yadav said that his party favoured directly elected executive which means there should be either directly elected president or directly elected prime minister.

The JSP-N said it would end all kinds of discrimination based on race, caste, region and gender.

The party said there was need to amend and rewrite the constitution as the major three political parties the CPN-UML, CPN-MC and the Nepali Congress, which had pledged to carve out provinces on the basis of identity and capability had backtracked on their pledge and promulgated the constitution on the strength of their majority. The party said the current seven-province model federalism was nothing more than administrative federalism.

A version of this article appears in the print on November 6, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.