WOMEN, for instance, are treated as “second class” citizen still – single women, and women married to foreign men, cannot pass on her citizenship to neither their husband nor their children.
Nepalese in the southern plains, feeling totally betrayed by the new constitution, have been protesting since the middle of August last year. Their main point of contention being the demarcation of the federal provinces in the area. The protests, which have claimed about 4 dozens lives already, are still ongoing.
WHEN IT came to implementation of some of the inclusive provisions in the constitution, we still have not made much progress.
People in the hills, on the other hand, more than a year on, are still reeling from the aftermath of the biggest natural calamity to hit the country in living memory – the April 25 and May 12, 2015 earthquakes.
Reconstruction and rehabilitation of most of the millions directly or indirectly affected have not begun in earnest!
THE DISCRIMINATIONS, the limitations and restrictions on the lower castes and other marginalized groups over pretty much the entire modern history of the country has continuously been widening the economic rift.
Even in the aftermath of a 10-year civil war fought to correct it, following the abolishment of the monarchy to make amends, following the country sluggishly lurching forward for almost ten years without a constitution, following the unrest in the south and the economic blockade and its impact on mostly the marginalized, following the promulgation of the constitution the whole country had been waiting for so long, following the pretty much complete neglect of the demands by the agitating parties in Terai and following the complete and total neglect of the marginalized for over a year since the biggest natural calamity in living memory – the earthquakes of April and May 2015…that rift, that economic rift, promises to widen still!
