Riot police barricade an area near the parliament designated for demonstrations during the final day to draft the new constitution in Kathmandu yesterday. REUTERS Police tighten security as charter opposition grows KATHMANDU: Nepal stepped up security through the constitution, saying it new in the capital and put police on alert should be done only with a consensus of yes- terday, anticipating trouble both inside all the parties parliament and on the streets because of On Tuesday, opposition politicians planned protests by the opposition against threw chairs and attacked the parliamen governing coalition plans to push through tary speaker to stop him from proposing draft of a new constitution the formation of a questionnaire commit Chief government administrator ofKath tee, which precedes voting on the consti mandu Ek Narayan Aryal said thousands of tutional draft. police officers in riot gear and armed with The opposition also imposed a general bamboo batons were guarding the area strike, shutting down schools, transport, around the Constitution Assembly and markets and setting fire to several vehi cles. But the ruling coalition still planned areas of the capital Kathmandu Protests have been banned in the assem to push through a a draft of the new constitu bly hall area and police warned that viola- tion yesterday "Since today is the deadline for the new tors would be arrested The Himalayan nation has been constitution, we should, at least. take the attempting to draft a constitution since procedure ahead by forming the commit electing its first Constituent Assembly in said Rajan Bhattarai of the Communist tee, 2008. The current assembly was chosen in Party of Nepal Unified Manist Leninist, 2013 but disagreements among the parties part of the ruling coalition more than The ruling coalition makes up continue to hamper progress 605-member assembly, The opposition has vowed to block two-thirds of the AP the governing coalition's plan to push enough to get the draft approved