By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 01, 2023The writer covers parliamentary affairs and human rights for The Kathmandu Post.Over eight months after the federal parliament endorsed the amendment bill on the Citizenship Act for the second time, President Ramchandra Paudel on Wednesday authenticated the bill—the same one that his predecessor twice refused to authenticate. Paudel decided to authenticate the bill after repeated requests from the government followed by a series of consultations with…
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by Bharat Jargha Magar in The Kathmandu Post,Feb 2, 2023Forty-eight-year-old Shankar Sadaya lives in Shobhapur, a Musahar settlement in Lahan Municipality-18, Siraha. Most people in the settlement, including his family of five, have been deprived of basic government services for the lack of citizenship certificate. “All five members of my family are above 16 years of age but we haven’t been able to acquire citizenship certificates,” said Shankar. “Because of that, my children were deprived…
By Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, 13 Oct 2022Despite their polar opposite stances on the bill to amend the Citizenship Act-2006, the CPN-UML and the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) have forged an alliance for the federal and provincial elections. When President Bidya Devi Bhandari last month snubbed her constitutional duty by refusing to authenticate the amendment bill that had been endorsed by both houses of Parliament, the JSP was a partner of the five-party…