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"Nepal's first pro-people constitution was to have been promulgated by May 28, 2010 as the cornerstone of a peace accord that ended a decade of communist insurgency.

However, the 601-member parliament, elected to write the new constitution, failed to deliver with its three largest parties - the Communists, Maoists and Nepali Congress (NC) - remaining tangled in a protracted battle for power.

At this time last year, when the interim constitution was to expire, plunging the country into an unprecedented vacuum, the three buried the hatchet in a midnight drama and extended the life of the statute by a year.

However, records showed parliament sat for only 95 minutes during the extended year, leaving the new constitution still incomplete.

Now, fresh doom threatens Nepal at midnight, when the term of the interim constitution will end and with it, that of parliament and the government as well.

The three parties are back to where they were last year, still squabbling while trying to push for another extension".....(Hindustan Times)