KATHMANDU: Chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA), Subas Chandra Nembang, has said that the new constitution should be promulgated as soon as possible by institutionalising achievements of the past on the basis of maximum consensus. He added that the new constitution cannot address cent percent demands of all.

After receiving a memorandum at his office, Singha Durbar, from a delegation of the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) regarding the 16-point agreement signed among four major political parties on June 8, CA Chair Nembang urged all not to make any activities leading to dissolution the CA as the first CA was dissolved without promulgating the new constitution due to some arguments over the issues that were close to consensus.

On the occasion, he assured of taking the memo to the Constitution Draft Committee of the CA.

Nembang informed that draft of the new constitution would be brought before the people as soon as possible.

The CA Chair further said that the new constitution would be promulgated by adopting rules, norms and values of the CA.

Submitting the seven-point memo, NEFIN Chairperson Nagendra Kumar Kumal, also a lawmaker, said that the new federal constitution along with names of should be promulgated on the basis of agreements signed with them in past years.