As Nepal’s top political leaders stopped saying they would meet the January 22 deadline for the new constitution, the Constituent Assembly’s chairman, Subash Nembang, claimed he could still do it, provided he was vested with all discretionary powers. Nepal has been a political laboratory for all sorts of agreements over the last nine years.The major political parties are wasting time in the name of forging consensus. How many rounds of negotiations are required to forge consensus? The major political parties have engaged in so many negotiations that they have lost count of them. They attend such negotiations with their never-changing rigid stances. No consensus can be reached with such a rigid mindset, no matter whether they hold negotiations for the hundredth time.The major political parties are wasting time in the name of forging consensus. How many rounds of negotiations are required to forge consensus? The major political parties have engaged in so many negotiations that they have lost count of them. They attend such negotiations with their never-changing rigid stances. No consensus can be reached with such a rigid mindset, no matter whether they hold negotiations for the hundredth time.
