National consensus needed to resolve current crisis

Kathmandu, Aug 18-: Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Niranjan Thapa said Wednesday said that a national consensus among all nationalistic forces including His Majesty the King would be the proper solution to the present crisis of the country. Thapa said that the political parties during the last 14 years of democratic practices had breached the norms and values of the Constitution, adding that the present crisis emerged due to the violation of rule of law.Some people in the guise of civil society were creating agitation by playing the role of sister organisation of certain political parties, he aregued. “The role of civil societies should be independent, as they represent intellectual community.”Every year, the nation observes august 17 as the Civil Code Day. The laws were first drafted in 1910 B S and the new and progressive amendment was made in 2020 B S.Former justice of the Supreme Court Krishna Jung Rayamajhi said that the Civil Code has a significant role to lead the country towards the rule of law and social justice.All the political parties should come together to settle the present crisis before the situation goes beyond control, he added. “Nobody is above the rule of law.”Senior advocate Krishna Prasad Bhandary said that formulation of the Civil Code was a courageous task, as the earlier civil laws were based on social discriminations and injustice. Legal expert Prof. Dr. Dharma Bahadur Thapa said that the country’s situation was deteriorating due to the pervasive corruption.