The 22-party meeting has been scheduled at Constituent Assembly building on 3 p.m.[break]
Meanwhile, political parties have intensified internal parleys ahead of nomination of candidacy of prime minister (PM) in the parliament Tuesday.
A central committee (CC) meeting of the CPN UML, third largest party in CA, is underway at its party office in Balkhu. The meeting has been rescheduled as the CC meet on Monday failed to come up with any decisions regarding the PM election.
The meeting is expected to decide whether to file nomination of its chairman Jhalanath Khanal for the PM election or not.
Similarly, the politburo meeting of the largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA) Unified CPN (Maoist) is underway at its party headquarters in Paris Danda.
The meeting is discussing on its party’s prime minister candidate and its possible alliance with other parties in forming a new government.
Meanwhile, Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and vice chairman Dr Baburam Bhattarai held a meeting Tuesday morning.
Both Dahal and Bhattarai are eying for the top executive post.
Bhattarai has already made it public that either the party chairman or he will file nomination for the post of PM.
In the mean time, the second largest party in CA, Nepali Congress is holding an internal meeting to discuss strategies to get its PM candidate Paudel elected in the election to be held on Wednesday.
According NC spokesperson Arjun Narsingh KC, Paudel will file his nomination at around 3:30 p.m.
The nomination for the PM candidate should be filed between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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