Protesters holding sticks shout anti-government slogans during a protest organised by the opposition alliance led by the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), to demand the new constitution be drafted with the consensus of all political parties, in Kathmandu yesterday. Nepal’s political parties have repeatedly missed deadlines to write the new republic’s first constitution. At the heart of the dispute is disagreement over creating new provinces based on ethnicity, a move backed by the former rebels.
