Will implement Constitution after all are taken in confidence: Prachanda

New Delhi: Underlining the urgency to unite despite differences in ethnicity and caste, Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Thursday said till the time Tharus and Madhesis are not taken into confidence, atmosphere for implementing the new Constitution cannot be created.

Prachanda, who was elected as the Prime Minister for the second time on August 3, said the top focus of the new dispensation is to create the "right atmosphere" before the implementation of the Constitution and pave way for the necessary amendments.

"We have already made two amendments," he said.

Prachanda, who is on a four-day goodwill visit to India, his first foreign visit after assuming power, was addressing the Nepali diaspora at the Nepalese embassy here.

"Till the time we don't take the Tharus, Madhesis and Janjatis into confidence and address their legitimate demands the atmosphere cannot be created for implementation of the new Constitution.

"There is a need to unite Nepal and its people despite differences in ethnicities, language, caste, class," Prachanda said.

Emphasising on the need to unite those in the Terai, hills and the plains, the Prime Minister of Nepal said, if that does not happen, then Nepal's sovereignty will be mere words.

"If they are not united then the political crisis will loom large," he said.

The Madhesi parties had led a six month-long agitation, mainly to protest against the seven-province federal model enshrined in the Constitution. At least 50 people were killed during the protests in south Nepal last year over the issue.

India wants Nepal to take steps to address the concerns of its citizens, especially those in Terai, over its newly-adopted constitution, as it feels the more the process in this regard gets delayed, the situation will "worsen and can get messy again".

During his interaction, the Nepalese community also complained that they played a prominent role during the movement against the monarchy, but since the new democratic polity came into being they have been forgotten.