'Nepal govt to table Constitution amendment in mid-November'

Nepal government is planning to table a proposal in the parliament by mid-November seeking an amendment to the Constitution to meet the long-pending demands of the agitating parties, including the Madhesis, Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi said today.
Amending the Constitution and conducting the election are the present needs of the country and the government is mainly focused on these agenda, said Nidhi, who is also the Minister for Home Affairs.
"The government is planning to table a proposal before the House seeking an amendment to the constitution by mid- November," he told reporters.
The disputed issues relating to the citizenship, provincial boundaries and formation of the National Assembly need to be sorted out through consensus while amending the statute, he said.

Re-demarcation of the provincial boundary and citizenship issue are the two major demands put forth by the agitating Madhesi parties.
The minority, mostly of Indian-origin, has led months- long violent protest seeking better representation in the Parliament and the federal structure of the Constitution that divides their ancestral homeland.
The government is expected to seek the ground for addressing the citizenship issue to be based on the interim constitution, Nidhi said while addressing a meeting organised by Nepal Press Union in Dhading district in central Nepal.