After Tiwari exit, Uprety is new CDC member

KATHMANDU, JUL 30 -
The Cabinet on Monday appointed public administration expert Chuda Raj Uprety a new member of the Constituency Delimitation Commission.

The appointment follows the resignation of one of the members, Madhunidhi Tiwari, on July 25. Tiwari was reportedly unhappy with the way the CDC worked. Sources said he had been objecting to the bases for delimitation the CDC had been talking and was not convinced with the idea that constituencies need to be increased.

“There are constitutional ambiguities and the commission has a limited time frame. This will not allow the CDC to deliver as expected,” Tiwari said. According to him, political actors must arrive at a consensus to remove the constitutional difficulties. “If the commission files its report without the complications being addressed, there is every possibility that the elections will be disturbed,” Tiwari’s resignation letter said. He said the CDC has only addressed the population gap in the constituencies, but the “real work” will require the CDC more than a month’s time. “The commission has to look into a host of issues such as population, culture and accessibility while delimiting constituencies. But we worked only on adjusting the population in the constituencies,” he said.

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