Nurturing The Republic

Today marks the completion of 15 years of the proclamation of the republic system in Nepal. The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) on May 28, 2008 declared Nepal a federal democratic republic by abolishing the 240-year-old monarchy. Although multiparty democracy was established in 1990, the country was unable to experience true democracy due to instability and monarchy's ambition to overstep the constitutional limits. The national charter drafted by the Constituent Assembly has established Nepal as a federal, secular, democratic republican state. It is an inclusive democracy, integrating marginalised communities and regions into the central political power structure and the national development process.