KATHMANDU: Lawyers today took out a rally in the Capital and later met Constituent Assembly Chairman Subas Nembang and submitted signatures collected from across the country to press the government to promulgate the constitution within stipulated time.

The Patan Appellate Court Bar Association had initiated the signature campaign.

Nepal Bar Association (NBA) also submitted a memorandum to Nembang urging him to help give impetus to constitution-drafting process.

"There is still hope that the constitution can be promulgated within stipulated time if CA members are focused to do so," the memorandum reads.

"We urge CA members not to waste time attending seminars and programmes that are of less or no importance."

Lawyers, professors, journalists and professionals affiliated to different organisations participated in today's rally.

"CA chairperson Nembang gave us a readymade answer that statute promulgation was possible within the stipulated time," NBA president Prem Bahdur Khadka said after handing over the memorandum.

According to NBA president Khadka, Nembang expressed helplessness over eight thematic committees' failure

to submit their reports

to Constituent

Assembly.

Only three thematic committees till date have submitted their reports. "Nembang made a request to us to continue with our campaign to press the political parties for timely statute," Khadka added.

Former Nepal Bar A presidents Shambhu Thapa and Harihar Dahal warned that political parties better make their commitments public by April 24.