First, directly elect chief ministers and then do so for executive head at centre

We have to think about transferring certain rights from local to provincial level because local units don’t have expertise to oversee all tasks they are entrusted with.

Nepal is marking its ninth Constitution Day on Thursday. The country’s two largest parties—the Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML—formed a coalition government a month ago with a commitment to reviewing and amending the constitution. In this context,