The UCPN (Maoist), the largest party in the CA, however, didn´t attend the meeting. "They were absent. May be it is because of their busy schedule," Acharya told myrepublica.com. [break]
Ram Chandra Poudel, Prakash Man Singh and Kul Bahadur Gurung from the Nepali Congress and Jhala Nath Khanal, Bhim Rawal and Agni Kharel from the CPN-UML attended the meeting on Monday.
Acharya held discussions with the leaders dividing the 24 parties in four groups. He consulted leaders of a few small parties on Sunday, a few others on Monday morning and top leaders of major political parties in on Monday evening. Khanal, who was on India visit, went to the meeting directly from the Tribhuvan International Airport.
The leaders of the fringe parties had suggested Acharya to drawing attention of top leaders of the major political parties toward the need of a good understanding among the major parties for writing the constitution on time, according to Acharya.
"The major parties suggested holding more informal discussions to build trustworthy relations among the parties," Acharya said. A proposal to form a workable panel or a subcommittee was put forth, thinking that the 63-member committee might be too big to expedite the work, he said, adding that further discussions will continue in the days to come.
The CA is planning to forward the preliminary drafts of the thematic committees to the CC to prepare an integrated draft report soon. Apart from its thematic role to prepare a preliminary draft report and concept paper, the CC is also entrusted with preparing a single integrated draft report compiling all the 11 thematic reports.
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