Kathmandu, December 10
The Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee in Parliament has directed the government not to miss the deadline of March 5, 2015 that the constitution has fixed to amend laws that contradict the constitution.
As the constitution has it that all laws contradicting the charter have to be amended within the first year from the beginning of the first session of Federal Parliament, the government has less than three weeks to complete the task.
Therefore, the panel’s meeting on Monday urged the government to speed up the process.
The constitution states that the laws contradicting the constitution will automatically be null and void if they are not amended by the deadline.
Officials of Parliament including Speaker of the House of Representatives Krishna Bahadur Mahara and Chairman of the National Assembly Ganesh Prasad Timilsina have also put pressure on the government over the issue.
