The constituent assembly is no more because it finished its four year term. The Supreme Court had made it clear the assembly can not last more than four years. Baburam Bhattarai did not dissolve the assembly.
The only legitimate way to give the country a constitution is through a constituent assembly and the only way to get a new constituent assembly is through elections to a new one.
So the best thing Ram Baran Yadav can do to help the process is by cooperating with the Prime Minister to make all legal and constitutional adjustments necessary to hold elections to a new assembly. That is the only way.
The constituent assembly can not be revived any more than King Birendra can be brought back to life by those who might wish to revive monarchy in the country.
The idea of changing Prime Ministers is the most idiotic of all ideas being floated right now. If an all party government is to be formed that necessarily has to be led by the party that was the largest in the last assembly.
You don't change Prime Ministers. You keep this Prime Minister and you induct some members of the Congress and the UML into the current cabinet.
April 2013 would be a good time to hold elections to a new constituent assembly. After that assembly has given the country a new constitution it can then be turned into a parliament through a political decision. And then the country can go on to hold direct elections for an executive president who must earn at least 50% of the votes cast or face a second round between the two top candidates. Then hold state and local elections.
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