{"id":51534,"date":"2026-07-19T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=51534"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:41:55","slug":"amend-constitution-for-good-governance-nc-president-thapa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/amend-constitution-for-good-governance-nc-president-thapa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Amend constitution for good governance, NC President Thapa says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Gandaki, July 19: Nepali Congress (NC) President Gagan Kumar Thapa has said that debate on constitution amendment should be initiated by keeping good governance at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>At a seminar in Pokhara today on Constitution Amendment Recommendation, Thapa suggested that priorities should be listed out first for the constitution amendment. &#8220;The NC stated the issues of constitution amendment for good governance, institutional development of constitution and strengthening of federalism in the party&#8217;s election manifesto,&#8221; President Thapa stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good governance is the prime issue of the time. The new generation is also raising this same issue. Let&#8217;s begin the debate on constitution amendment by keeping good governance at the centre,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Thapa warned that the country could plunge into new conflict if the issue of constitution amendment was not handled in a right manner. &#8220;The aspect of constitution amendment should be viewed through a historical viewpoint and mindset. This is not a matter to deal in haste and sentiments. Constitution amendment in itself is a sensitive issue,&#8221; according to the NC President.<\/p>\n<p>Thapa reiterated that mixed electoral system and the parliament-elected executive head would be appropriate in the country like Nepal and argued that the province government and local government should be empowered.<\/p>\n<p>Gandaki Province Chief Minister Surendraraj Pandey also spoke at the event stating that federalism should be strengthened by minimizing the wrong practices seen in course of implementation of federalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandaki, July 19: Nepali Congress (NC) President Gagan Kumar Thapa has said that debate on constitution amendment should be initiated by keeping good governance at the centre. At a seminar in Pokhara today on Constitution Amendment Recommendation, Thapa suggested that priorities should be listed out first for the constitution amendment. &#8220;The NC stated the issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51536,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51534\/revisions\/51536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}