“Power News” is a social awareness show to help prevent unwanted activities on society. This show is published in News 24 tv. News is a National bulletin News that covers happenings in National, regional and International arena. The News a mixed standard format covers topics like Politics, Social, Culture, Education, Events and Economy.UCPN (Maoist) leader and former prime minister, Dr Baburam Bhattarai who is on a visit to India said that the protests by the opposition was aimed at piling pressure for promulgating a consensus-based constitution in line with the past accords and understandings.At a program organized by Society for Policy Studies and India International Centre in New Delhi Monday, Bhattarai said their future course would depend on ruling parties’ move towards building consensus.
Stating that the opposition is eager to sit for talks with the ruling parties, he warned of intensifying the struggles if the ruling coalition proceeded with the majority basis.
Bhattarai said that the Constituent Assembly (CA) cannot scrap the achievements of the different movements, and claimed that the extreme forces would escalate conflict in the country if the constitution did not ensure ethnicity-based federalism. The press release issued by Bhattarai quoted him as saying that federalism is an outcome of Maoist and Madhesh movements and ethnic struggle. “Not fulfilling Madhesi and ethnic demands on federalism is akin to betraying them. We couldn’t do that.”
The proportional representation system is a need for inclusion and directly elected president is for stability, he added. India’s former foreign secretary and former ambassador to Nepal Shyam Sharan and former ambassador Shiva Shanker Mukharjee, Nepal cell in-charge of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ajit Kumar, foreign expert SD Muni, among others, were present in the program.