The ruling Congress and UML have reached a decision to form a political mechanism for constitutional amendment. The series of meetings held in Baluwatar for a few days with the top leaders of the two parties have started preparations to form a mechanism to do the homework of constitutional amendment and move forward with a solid plan for the implementation of the seven-point agreement reached between the two parties on June 17.

Congress and UML agreed on the seven points of power cooperation on June 17, making the main agenda of constitutional amendment. The main subject of the seven-point agreement was to amend the constitution. In point 2 of the

agreement, it is mentioned that after the implementation of the Constitution, the Government of National Consensus will review the strengths and weaknesses and complications that have emerged in practice and give priority to the necessary amendments to the Constitution and the creation of appropriate laws for political stability. But in the meantime  The power coalition has not put forward a concrete plan regarding the amendment of the constitution. 

Minister of Home Affairs, Ramesh Akhtar, who has been participating in the recent meeting, said that it has been decided to form a working group consisting of two parties to carry out the homework of constitutional amendment. According to him, the mechanism will review 10 years of the implementation of the new constitution and identify issues for amendment.

We will communicate with all political parties after identifying the issues that need to be revised. The constitution will be amended by consensus,' he said, 'it will not happen tomorrow, if we prepare from now, we can start the amendment process after some time.' 

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli held a meeting with the chief whips of both parties on Tuesday and informed that they are trying to build a mechanism on the matter of constitutional amendment, and instructed to work in the direction of moving the bill under consideration in the parliamentary committee on the 'fast track'.

Chief Whip of Congress Shyam Ghimire said that there was a discussion about the prime minister announcing the political mechanism for the amendment of the constitution and moving the bill forward quickly. "Especially, there has been a serious debate in the direction that the seven-point agreement between the two parties should be effectively implemented," he said. UML Secretary Yogesh Bhattarai, who participated in the

meeting, also said that preparations are being made to amend the constitution based on consensus. Within the ruling Congress and UML, there is a strong opinion that the electoral system should be amended for political stability. For the stability of the government, the main emphasis of the two parties is to find an alternative of proportional inclusion and make the House of Representatives a seat of direct representatives. Proposals have been put forward to make the National Assembly proportionally inclusive or to make the constituencies inclusive. 

Maoist, the main opposition party, has expressed doubts that the system of proportional inclusion is being tried to be weakened by trying to amend the electoral system. The Maoists have been maintaining the stance that the constitution should be amended only to strengthen the proportional and inclusive system.

Maoist General Secretary Dev Gurung accused the Congress and UML of wanting to return to the 047 constitution. "They are talking about reversing the achievements of the Constituent Assembly," he said, "now the amendment of the constitution will not only end the democratic republic, but will lead to instability and chaos." The Maoists have been putting forward a proposal that the House of Representatives should be made a fully proportional, inclusive election system instead of a directly elected one. "It is possible to move to a system where the chief executive can come from direct elections, the federal system should be recognized", added Gurung.