Constitutional issues: Nepal

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2015: Secularism retained

The Times of India, Sep 15 2015

Kathmandu

Nepal rejects Hindu nation proposal, to stay secular

Nepal's Constituent Assembly has rejected calls to remove the key term secularism from the new Constitution and revert the Himalayan nation to a Hindu state, triggering protests by Hindu activists. As the Constituent Assembly resumed voting on individual articles of the Constitution draft, more than two-thirds of the lawmakers rejected the amendment proposal to make Nepal a Hindu state and reaffirmed that it will remain a secular nation.

The proposal was made by Rastirya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Nepal or National Democratic Party Nepal, a pro-Hindu group, which demanded that secularism be removed from the Constitution in the Article 4 and Hindu state be mentioned instead. RPP's Kamal Thapa demanded split voting, the Himalayan Times reported. Thapa's call received the support of only 21 lawmakers in the 601-seat Assembly .