Student to take Nepal Constitution copy to Everest

A 23-year-old student union leader affiliated to the Nepali Congress would scale the world's highest peak Mt Everest carrying a copy of the new Constitution.
Anish Luitel, Nepal Students Union (NSU) President of Dhulabari Campus in Jhapa district will climb Mt Everest where he will be unfurling the country's national flag and displaying a copy of the Nepal's new Constitution to mark the Student Union's anniversary.
NSU Central Chairman Ranjit Karna handed over Nepal's national flag and a copy of the Constitution to Luintel at a press conference here today.
"The country will now witness an economic revolution as the youth wants to see development in the country after the promulgation of the Constitution," Karna said.

The student leader is attempting to scale the highest mountain in the world for the first time. He will leave Kathmandu for Mt Everest on Tuesday with 13 other members of a foreign expedition.
In September last year, Nepal adopted its new fully secular and democratic Constitution, achieved after seven years of painstaking deliberations, amid violent protests by Madhesis over a seven province federal structure.
Madhesis, who share strong cultural and family bonds with India, were demanding demarcation of provinces, fixing of electoral constituencies on the basis of population and proportional representation.
Mt Everest is Earth's highest mountain. Its peak is 8,848 metres above sea level.