Protests in Nepal against move to amend Constitution

Nepal’s proposed Constitution Amendment Bill that seeks to readjust boundaries of two provinces ostensibly to meet the demands of Madhesi and ethnic groups is facing protest from the main Opposition, while the agitating groups called it inadequate and “not acceptable in the present form”.The proposed amendment

Bill mainly re-adjusts the two provinces transferring all the hill districts to Province Four, and giving a Tharu-Madhesi domination to Province Five, also agrees to accord official language status to all the languages spoken in the areas. It, however, declines to give the status of “citizens by birth” to “foreigners married to Nepalis”.