KATHMANDU: Members of the Constitutional Committee today raised objections to the Constituent Assembly (CA) for sending Committee's report on Structure of the Constitutional Bodies without discussing in the CA full House.

The CA full House passed the complementary report of the Committee on Structure of the Constitutional Bodies yesterday without letting CA members debate on the proposed six new commissions on women, dalit, Madhesi, Muslim, Marginalised and person with Disability and Indigenous and Nationalities.

According to CA regulations, the CA full House has to send its suggestions and direction to the Constitutional Committee by sorting out the differences that appeared in the committees' reports.

The CA full House decided to send the report without deciding on whether the proposed six new constitutional bodies should be brought under an umbrella commission or they should remain separate

bodies as suggested by the Committee on Structure of Constitutional Bodies.

Nepali Congress and UML CA members in the Constitutional Committee said that the constitution-drafting panel would not be able to work effectively unless the top leaders of all the parties were present in the meeting and discuss the contentious issues seriously.

Top leaders of all the

parties, including Girija

Prasad Koirala of the Nepali Congress, J N Khanal of the CPN-UML, Prachanda of

the UCPN-Maoist and Upendra Yadav of the Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum, are members of the Constitutional Committee and they are the ones who have remained absent most of the times.

Mahendra Paswan, a Constitutional Committee member, said that today's meeting

of the committee had

directed all its members to be present in the next meeting scheduled for Sunday.

Records show that the G P Koirala has appeared in the committee's meeting twice, Prachanda five times, Khanal 17 times and PM Madhav Kumar Nepal five times.

The Constitutional Committee has also obtained the

report on Natural Resoruces, Economic Rights and Distribution of Revenues. It completed its discussions on the

natural resources committee's report and has decided to

put its input on Part of Economic Working Procedure of the new constitution.

Other key constitutional issues will be incorporated in

the constitution only after receiving uniformed reports on the forms of governance and state restructuring and distribution of state power from the CA full House.

According to the schedule, the Constitutional Committee was supposed to present its first draft constitution by today. But it failed to meet its deadline as the CA full House could not provide reports of all the thematic committees.