All parties should be included in resolving crisis: Fringe parties

KATHMANDU, Feb. 20: Twenty-one small political parties, represented in the then Constituent Assembly, have concluded that the present crisis facing the nation could be resolved only through the participation of all the political parties.



A meeting of the parties held at the international convention centre in New Baneswor on Wednesday also announced that the ´syndicate´ of the four political forces including the three big parties and the Madhesi front was not acceptable to them.



The parties have also drawn the attention of the sides concerned towards not limiting the Rastrapati Bhawan to any particular party.



Emphasizing on the need to end the wrong tendency of imposing the decision taken by the four political forces on all other parties, the meeting decided that a collective consensus should be reached with the participation of all the parties, according to Co-president of Rastriya Janashakti Party Dr Prakash Chandra Lohani.



Majority of the party leaders were of the view that the present crisis should be addressed through elections and that the new constitution should be promulgated through the constituent assembly, General Secretary of Chure Bhawar Rastriya Ekata Party Badri Prasad Neupane said.



Leaders of parties in the present coalition including three incumbent ministers and of other small parties in the opposition took part in the meeting.

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