KATHMANDU, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Head of the Constitutional Committee Madhav Kumar Nepal has claimed the new constitution would be drafted within 15 months, the Rising Nepal reported Saturday.

    "The state is heading towards the right track and the political parties are working together to draft the new constitution," the government-run newspaper quoted Nepal as saying at a face-to-face program organized on Friday in Dang, some 280 km west of Nepali capital Kathmandu, "The country will get the new constitution within the stipulated time frame."

    As stipulated in the Interim Constitution, the Constituent Assembly, which was formed on May 28, 2008, would draft the new constitution in two years.

    The Constitutional Committee head's reaction came amid fears that growing differences between the parties and frequent disruptions of parliamentary affairs could delay the statute-drafting process.

    M. K. Nepal, who lost the Constituent Assembly elections from both of his constituencies in capital Kathmandu and Rautahat districts, was proposed by the leading Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to head the constitutional committee, which is the main CA panel.

    "No party should be in the opposition role during the process of writing the new constitution," Nepal said, adding "the government needs consensus and cooperation from all."