South India - Wikipedia In 1953, the Nehru government yielded to intense pressure from the northern Telugu-speaking districts of Madras State, and allowed them to vote to create India's first linguistic state. Andhra State was created on October 1, 1953 from the northern districts of Madras State, with its capital in Kurnool. Increasing demands for reorganisation of the patchwork of India's states resulted in the formation of a national States Reorganisation Commission. Based on the commission's recommendations, Parliament of India enacted the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, which reorganized the boundaries of India's states along linguistic lines. Andhra State was renamed Andhra Pradesh, and enlarged by the addition of Telugu-speaking region of Telingana, formerly part of Hyderabad State. Mysore State was enlarged by the addition of Coorg and the Kannada-speaking districts of southwestern Hyderabad State and southern Bombay State. The new Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala was created by the merger of Travancore-Cochin with Malabar and Kasargod districts of Madras State. Madras State, which after 1956 included the Tamil-majority regions of South India, changed its name to Tamil Nadu in 1968, and Mysore State was renamed Karnataka in 1972. Portuguese India, which included Goa, was annexed by India in 1961, and Goa became a state in 1987. The enclaves of French India were ceded to India in the 1950s, and the southern four were organised into the union territory of Pondicherry.
I fear Girija Koirala might go on TV and end up giving his second but not final speech. He might further anger the Madhesh. And the way he can do that is by not realizing that by now the political demands are secondary.
The very first thing has to be the Home Minister's resignation and a state recognition of the martyrs and the injured.
Krishna Sitaula has to resign. All those who have given their lives to the Madhesi Movement have to be declared martyrs by the state. Medical expenses for all those injured have to be the state's responsibility.
Then the political solution can begin.
If Girija Koirala does not make this the opening offer, the protests will continue. And he, just like the king in April, is going to have to give a third speech before things calm down.
I hope he does not make that mistake.
As for the four big parties reaching towards proportional representation, will it work? Let me go study the topic a bit.
Proportional representation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia aiming at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates (grouped by a certain measure) obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive ..... Various forms of proportional representation exist ..... party-list proportional representation ..... open list and closed list .... the single transferable vote (STV), which, in turn, does not depend on the existence of political parties (and where the abovementioned "measure of grouping" is entirely left up to the voters themselves) ...... above-the-line voting where candidates belonging to registered political parties are grouped together on the ballot paper with the voter provided with the option of "group voting" a semi-open party list/individual candidate system. ...... single non-transferable vote (SNTV) and cumulative voting
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- 5 Center Based Proportional and Multi-Party Systems
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Plus Points
- The adoption of the proportional representation system will be a face saving move for the parties in power. They do not have to meet the Madhesi demand of 205 constituencies of equal population. And they can still meet the Madhesi aspirations.
- A hung parliament will be guaranteed. Parties will be forced to work together. Small parties will stay relevant.
- Having the entire country as one constituency, and people only having to vote for party symbols might make the election process simpler than otherwise, especially when there is a severe time pressure to conduct the elections on time.
- It can be modified to better suit the local conditions. What about having DaMaJaMa reservations? How about having a 300 strong assembly? So each party will put forth a list of 300 candidates. But every third name on the list has to be female, and of the female names, two out of three have to be DaMaJaMa going down the list for every group of three names? And every fifth name on the list has to be Dalit, Madhesi, or Janajati without repeat. So if the fifth name is Dalit, the tenth name has to be Madhesi or Janajati. If the tenth name is Janajati, the 15th name has to be Madhesi. This would be a bare minimum. The parties may field as many additional DaMaJaMa candidates as they might want.
- If the parties can agree on some sort of a formula for DaMaJaMa reservations on their lists, proportional representation could work.
- The parties should also move to the idea of being state funded.
- This is the most popular election system in the world.
- A party like the Sadbhavana (Anandi) could do really well with an all Madhesi slate of candidates in the Terai.
- Madhesi Janadhikar Forum could become a party and do really well in the Madhesh.
- Party leaders end up with too much power for it will be them who will decide who will get on their lists. This creates a fundamental disconnect between the voters and those who represent them.
- The party presidents and the party whips already have too much power.
- People with no mass base but adept at backroom politics might end up in the parliament.
- Too many status quoists will get in. Bahun Chhetri men will end up crowdig all the major lists.
- Even the DaMaJaMa members on the lists will be beholden to their Bahun leaders instead of to their voters.
- The country that most famously does it is Israel. And that country is wanting to move away from it. It is no longer working for them.
- There will be less pressure for internal democracy in the political parties. The situation is already bad. It will get worse.
- There will be an added onus to put in constitutional provisions to ensure there is plenty of internal democracy in all the political parties and that party finances are kept transparent. Otherwise the mistakes that were made in terms of both process and outcome in getting the interim constitution will be repeated also in the constituent assembly.
- Personally I am for a mixed system where all constituencies are of equal population, and where parties are state funded and keep their book keeping transparent. That is what I have in my proposed constitution.
- If the Pahadi parties were going to go for this in the first place, why did they not go for this on day three? Why did they let the Madhesh burn for 20 days? Why were over 20 lives lost? More during the Maghe Kranti than during the April Revolution? Pahadi politicians end up looking dismissive and patronizing of the Madhesh.
- This system will not allow for the targeting of particular Pahadi big dog leaders for electoral defeat.
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सरिता गिरी: अशान्त मधेस, नया नेपाल
Hamro Nepal Press Release: Only A Political Outlet To The Madhesi Movement
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िफर से कह दो एक बार इन्िकलाब
पहाडी मधेशी दंगा, मधेशी जनजाित गठबंधन, र िनर्णायक, अिहंसात्मक अन्ितम अान्दोलनको खाँचो
सद्भावना रोडम्याप
नेपालमा दमजम अान्दोलनको अावश्यकता
नेपालमा संसारको नम्बर एक लोकतन्त्रको स्थापना हुन सक्छ
राजतन्त्र, बाहुनवाद र भर्ष्टाचार समाप्त पारौं
राजतन्त्र, बाहुनवाद र भर्ष्टाचार समाप्त पारौं
प्रस्तािवत संिवधान
The Madhesi Movement Goes On
Regardless, the Madhesi Movement goes on. Madhesi Hum Lenge Sau Mein Pachas. The Madhesi Movement wants half of all members of the constituent assembly to be Madhesi.
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Unidentified group shoots down 3 persons in Saptari NepalNews a group of eight persons who came on four motorcycles indiscriminately fired at three persons. The three persons who received dozens of bullets died on the spot. ....... One of the dead has been identified as Jitendra Yadav of Gojiniya, Saptari UK urges Nepal govt to reach out to agitating Madhesi groups British ambassador to Nepal Dr Andrew Hall met with Prime Minister GP Koirala’s foreign relation advisor Dr Suresh Chalise at the PMO ..... Hall further said the demands of the agitating Madhesi groups were just Four parties agree to amend interim constitution to address Medhesi demands Nepali Congress (NC), CPN (Maoist), CPN (UML) and NC (Democratic) ...... Koirala is to deliver a second address to the nation --with the announcement to incorporate the demands of Madhesi groups, including proportional representation system, in the interim statute. ...... amend the interim constitution to resolve the Terai unrest that has claimed over 20 lives. However, the process of the amendment is yet to be agreed upon. ...... PM Koirala, Maoist chairman Prachanda, UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal, NC (D) general secretary Bilendra Nidhi and other central leaders of the four parties participated in the meeting. Biratnagar, Malangawa and Inaruwa still under curfew indefinite curfew continues in Malangawa, Sarlahi PM could address the nation today after conferring with eight party leaders his second address to the nation in less than a week. ...... The informal meeting of the cabinet, on Sunday, had concluded that the Prime Minister needed to make a collective address, on behalf of the eight parties. PM's new address will attempt to clarify what he had offered in his first address last week as well as take up recommendations made by eight parties. ..... his own alliance partners like the UML and Maoists, too, distanced themselves from his address saying it was incomplete and inadequate. Sundh to talk with parties over Terai unrest representative of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR-Nepal) Lena Sundh ...... urged the authorities to refrain from using lethal force and has urged demonstrators to stick to peaceful path.
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