Parties agree for unicameral legislature in federal states

A panel formed to assist the high-level taskforce, which has been entrusted with sorting out the differences on matters concerning the new constitution, Wednesday decided to go for unicameral legislature in the federal states.The panel members agreed to go for unicameral parliament while discussing the report of the Constituent Assembly's Committee for Determining the Form of the Legislative Body."All the parties have agreed to go for unicameral parliament in the states," panel member and Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Sunil Prajapati, informed after the meeting.According to him, the parties are yet to agree on the name of the states legislature. "Different names such as Parliament, Federal Parliament and Jana Pratinidhi Sabha (people's representative assembly) are under discussion," Prajapati said.The leaders also discussed the form of the legislature at the centre, judicial system and the voting age (16 or 18 years), but could not arrive at any conclusion.On Tuesday, the high-level taskforce headed by Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal had settled nine disputed issues concerning the new constitution. It is yet to sort out differences on the two trickiest issues - form of governance and the electoral system.