KATHMANDU: Indigenous People's Mega Front is planning for a second phase of protest programme demanding to ensure special rights for them in the new constitution.

Shankar Limbu, coordinator, of the front warned of 'alternative constitution' if the government failed to address their demands at the earliest.

Talking to The Himalayan Times Limbu said that they were forming a national front for making their movement nationwide. He added that they were pressuring the government to address their demands through the movement.

The demands included right to self-determination, right to autonomy and self governance among others. "There should be permanent sovereignty in land territory and natural resources of indigenous group" said Limbu, adding, that most of the drafted provisions of the various panels of the Constituent Assembly however, were against the aspiration of the indigenous people.

Meanwhile, the front has asked the government to ensure every right enshrined by the International Labour Convention 169 and assure meaningful and effective representation of the indigenous people in all the state mechanism.

The front demanded end to all type of discrimination against them and urged the government to allow rights to use their mother tongue .