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Issue 53, Volume 64
Special Edition, Page 2
Royal Gazette

9 November 2490

a new edition in 2489 BE,[1] is considered to be a constitution that suited the Nation in the times past.

Now, the Nation has fallen into a crisis. The citizenry has been suffering difficulty and adversity because of lack of food, lack of clothes, and shortage of various other things, including consumable goods of all kinds, of which the prices have risen much higher than before, resulting in an unprecedented moral decline amongst the people. All those handling the public services of the State, as well as the Assembly, have been unable to solve the unfavourable things so as to bring back the former conditions. The actions undertaken by the Government and the control exercised by the National Assembly over the public services of the Executive with a view to helping each other in solving [the situations] for betterment according to the means designated in the said constitution met with no success at all, to the disappointment of the people throughout the Country, and, on the contrary, it has been seen that all the solutions have successively caused deterioration to the Nation. If this is left at the mercy of the fate, ruination would be brought about to the Na-

  1. Referring to the Constitution of 2489 BE (1946 CE).