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NEPAL: MADHESHIS GAIN A STRONGER VOICE IN THE 'NEW' NEPAL.

Publication: Interpress Service
Publication Date: 01-FEB-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
by Marty Logan

KATHMANDU, Feb. 1, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A 12-day uprising by Nepal's madheshi people has forced the revolutionary government to promise it will change the state structure to more fairly distribute power to excluded groups.

The new Nepal will be a federal state instead of the current centralized one and will include more electoral constituencies to reflect recent population growth, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala announced in a televised speech Wednesday.

Madheshis, or plains people, now comprise 36 percent of the population of this South Asian nation bordered by India and China but have held only roughly 15 percent of the seats in recent governments. Women, indigenous people and dalits (so-called "untouchables" under Hindu dogma) are the other excluded...

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