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Yuba Nath Lamsal : Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is the most astute politician of contemporary Nepal. Since 2005 Nepali politics has revolved around Prachanda and his agendas. He led a decade-long armed insurgency, which got partial success. A Comprehensive Peace Agreement was reached between the government of Nepal and CPN-Maoist in 2005 bringing the insurgents into peaceful and competitive politics as well as transforming Nepal from a monarchical unitary state to a federal democratic republic. A new constitution was written by a democratically elected Constituent Assembly that formally institutionalised the newly agreed political agendas. Maoists call it the outcome of the ‘people’s war’, while other parties contradict and claim that the epochal political change owes to the third Janaandolan (people’s movement). Whatever the claims and counter-claims, the political change of 2005 is definitely a historic that has heralded a new era in Nepal’s political history. T

Yuba Nath Lamsal:- A constitution is a set of rules duly codified in a single document. The constitution illustrates the nature and behaviour of a country. The constitution guides the citizens what to do and what not to do. The constitution also governs relations among citizens and with countries in the global community. In other worlds, the constitution ensures what the second American president, John Adams, called ‘the government of laws and not the government of men’. The constitution specifically says what a government should or should not do in defence of people’s rights, freedom, and well-being. The constitution is, thus, the soul of democratic governance. The history of constitutions in the world goes back to the 17th century, when a tiny European state, San Marino, adopted a constitution. However, the modern and democratic constitution-making process has its roots in the 18th century’s political upheavals in America and Europe. The American War of Independence and the Fren

Yuba Nath Lamsal: Come September every year, world leaders and diplomats rub shoulders in the UN headquarters in Manhattan, New York. The annual gala event of the UN General Assembly kicks off on the third Tuesday of September, where rhetoric is more of a common phenomenon than concrete actions to tackle the complex global issues. As the 78th General Assembly of the world body is already underway, Prime Minister Puspah Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is set to join this global annual jamboree leading a Nepali delegation where he will address the plenary session. This has been a ritualistic phenomenon every year since Nepal joined the United Nations in 1955. The United Nations was created in 1945 in the wake of the World War II that killed nearly 60 million people and caused devastation of epic proportion. The League of Nations had earlier been formed immediately after the World War I but it failed in its objectives owing to multiple reasons, thus requiring another global body to prevent