NRNA forms Constitution Suggestion Committee

The Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), International Coordination Council (ICC) has formed a committee under the chairmanship of Professor Surya P. Subedi, a distinguished professor of law based in the UK with expertise on international, constitutional and human rights law, to prepare the NRN suggestions for the proposed constitution of Nepal.

A NRNA statement said the committee will collect suggestions from NRNs residing all over the world and draft the collective NRNA recommendation, which will be submitted to the Constituent Assembly in Nepal.

Other members of the committee are Kul Chandra Gautam, the former UN assistant secretary-general, Naresh Koirala, NRNA regional coordinator for North America, Professor Alok Bohara, professor of political science at the University of New Mexico USA, Dr Jugal Bhurtel, spokesperson of the NRNA, Dinesh Tripathi, NRNA's legal advisor as well as the Presidents of the following 45 international chapters of the NRN Association:

Goba Katuwal (Australia), Dr. Shyam Upadhyaya (Austria), Basudev Bhattarai (Bahrain), Dr. Mohan Jaiswal (Belarus), Penba Gyalbu Sherpa (Belgium), Naba Raj Gurung (Canada), Er. Sudhir Timilsina (China), Mani Raj Thebe (Cyprus), Dr. Sambhu Prasad Sah (Finland), Ashok Kumar Neupane (France), Dil Bahadur Gurung (Germany), Yem Kumar Gurung (Hong Kong), Surendra Shrestha (Hungary), Anish Shakya (Indonesia), Shiva Raj Gautam (Ireland), Bhuwan Singh Kunwar (Israel), Bhim Bahadur Bam (Italy), Bhaban Bhatta (Japan), Gangaraj Rai (South Korea), Dilli Poudel (Lebanon), Ghan Shyam Poudel (Lesotho), Dipendra Basnet (Luxemburg), Krishna Bdr. Gurung (Macau), Sangkar Bahadur Poudel (Malaysia), Sagar Ghimire (Myanmar), Dr. Govind Rauniyar (Netherlands), Baburaja Maharjan (New Zealand), Hikmat Thapa (Nigeria), Dr. Tara Niraula (America), Dr. Bishal Sitaula (Norway), Dev Narayan Tiwari (Oman), Dr. Bodha Raj Subedi (Poland), Laxmi Prasad Sapkota (Portugal), Kamal Mani Guragain (Qatar), Dr. Mani Raj Pokharel (Russia), Gopal Ghimire (Saudi Arabia), Amar Pradhan Chitrakar (Singapore), Dr. Sudhakar Dawadi (South Africa), Aswin Kumar Shrestha (Slovenia), Ganeshman Talchabhadel (Spain), Sanjay Mudbhary (Switzerland), Ramesh K. Hamal (Thailand), Chandra Pd. Sapkota (UAE), Damer Ghale (UK) and Birendra Kumar Singh (Ukraine).

The committee has been asked to submit a well thought out and comprehensive set of suggestions representing collective aspirations of the global NRN community to the ICC by 15 March 2009. nepalnews.com Feb 12 09