After failing to resolve the long-standing impasse, the Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) in a meeting held at the prime minister´s office Saturday morning have proposed to form a six-member core group to find a solution.
Top NC leaders including Sushil Koirala, Bimalendra Nidhi and Krishna Prasad Sitaula and CPN-UML leaders Bharat Mohan Adhikari and Ishwar Pokharel, among others, were present in the meeting. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal also attended the meeting.
“In the meeting, we proposed that a small team comprising two members each from the three largest political parties be formed to find a way out,” Adhikari told myrepublica.com.
However, UCPN (Maoist) vice chairman Narayankaji Shrestha said that no one had formally informed the Maoist leaders about such a proposal until Saturday evening.
In a three-party meeting earlier on Wednesday, the leaders had agreed to intensify bilateral talks between Maoist-NC, NC-UML and Maoist-UML to seek a common ground before holding a trilateral meeting.
Maoist-UML leaders held a few round of formal and informal talks but there had been no dialogue between Maoist-NC on the matter until Friday, said Shrestha. “NC leaders have failed to spare time for talks as they remained busy in their party central committee meeting,” he said.
Shrestha described talks with UML leaders as moving in a positive direction. “Yet, we have not succeeded to come up with a concrete solution. We need to hold more extensive dialogues before we take a stand,” he said.
The UCPN (Maoist) lawmakers have been continuously obstructing the House proceedings demanding what they call civilian supremacy.
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