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UNDP Brought Magar CA Members Together for a Lesson and Talk About the Constitution Making Process

Magar community CA Members at the program. Indigenous leader and CA Member Suresh Ale Magar (right) and M.S. Thapa Magar (left). Photos: Smita

Kathmandu, August 22, 2008- Constituent Assembly (CA) members from the Magar indigenous community placed stress on the constitution making process and on their roles to make sure the Magar community’s voice is addressed by the New Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic Nepal in capital on Friday.

The workshop was organized jointly by the Forum for Indigenous Studies (FIS), Support to Participatory Constitution Building in Nepal (SPCBN) and UNDP to discuss Magar CA members’ effective role in the constitution making process by understanding the details of what the Magar community wants in the new constitution.

Maoist CA member Barsaman Pun Magar ‘Ananta’ urged that CA members need to be well aware of what people want from the constitution and what procedures are needed to ensure that their demands are addressed. “Deciding the basis for Federalism is going to be very challenging. Therefore, it is a must for us to interact with each other on the people’s voice about the different issues so that we can address them effectively in the constitution making process,” said Ananta.

Presenting their papers, 'Constitution making process and its important aspects of Constitution law' Prof. Purnaman Shakya and advocate Dinesh Tripathi persisted with the necessity of CA members to have at least minimum ideas of Constitutional bodies, be well informed about their communities’ voices, as well as asking help from experts on specific subjects to be able to raise their issues powerfully and be certain that their issues are addressed by the constitution.

Magar CA Members participating at the discussion.

Brinda Magar, representative from SPCBN said that UNDP was supporting the indigenous organizations to organize such workshops to empower CA members and effective participation of people belonging to the communities in the constitution making process. She informed that they have already conducted such programs in Dalit, Madhesi, Tharu and Muslim communities. The SPCBN started in May 2008. It plans to conduct this same workshop in other indigenous, minorities and marginalized communities.

Prof. Purnaman Shakya

Participants included CA Members and civil society members hailing from the Magar community. They urged that the basis for federalism should be ethnic, regional and linguistic, autonomous state with right to self-determination, indigenous peoples’ prerogative rights of control over natural resources within the autonomous state, guarantee of special rights for minorities and marginalized communities, gender equality and many other important issues to be addressed in new the constitution.

Magar, the largest ethnic community in Nepal has 29 CA Members at the National Assembly in Nepal who were elected from various political parties.

-Smita Magar in Kathmandu

CA Member and Maoists leader Barshman Pun Magar

Magar CA Members. Photos: Smita

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