| News Desk The Kathmandu Post Publication Date : 18-01-2011 |
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The three major Nepali parties have agreed to retain the present national flag in the new constitution. Top leaders of UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN-UML reached an agreement to interpret the non-quadrilateral shaped national flag in the changed political context. The Nepali flag is the only flag in the world that is not rectangular in shape. The parties agreed to include an explanatory part in the constitution that would interpret the constitution as per the aspiration of people’s movement of 2006 and other democratic movements, said CPN-UML lawmaker Agni Kharel. Earlier, the parties were divided on the structure of half moon and sun in the triangular halves of the national flag. The main opposition UCPN (Maoist) had been arguing that theflag was an embodiment of monarchical rule and should be changed. In Sunday’s (January 16) three-party meeting, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal proposed retaining the current flag by incorporating new interpretation as the aspirations of people in the changed political context. “An agreement was reached to interpret the images of sun and moon in the national flag as the existence of Nepal in the world until there are sun and moon in the universe,” said a leader who took part in the meeting. The parties have also agreed to interpret eight rays out of 16 that are visible on white emblem of the crescent moon in the upper part and white emblem of 12 rayed sun in the lower part of the flag as diversity of Nepal. The three parties have consented to present the new agreement in the meeting of 28 parties scheduled for Monday. They have also agreed to remove the provision regarding conditions to be a national party. Earlier, they were mulling threshold of three percent votes in election to get the status of a national party. http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=16834 |
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