As President Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday unveiled Nepal Constitution 2015, the party's general secretary, Ram Janam Chaudhary, said that the only way to settle the issues of disgruntled groups is to hold talks with them and make necessary amendments to the constitution as soon as possible."We are open to talks, so the leaders of the big three parties should also come forward with an open mind. They should be serious about the division created in society by the constitution. How can they ignore the ongoing huge protests in the Tarai," asked Chaudhary.
"The leaders of major three parties have been ignoring the voices of marginalized Tharu and Madhesis. They are not serious about talks. They sat for talks with Tharu leaders but they are not responding further," said Chaudhary.
He said that the party has decided to continue street protest to pressure the major three parties into sitting for fruitful talks.
Last hour effort on Sunday failed
However, leaders of the major three parties say that an eleventh hour effort at reaching an agreement with MPRF-D and bringing back the disgruntled party on board the constitution process failed because of the rifts within the party itself.
According to UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal's personal aide Chudamani Khadka, top leaders had started discussion from early Sunday morning on the ways to reach an agreement with MPRF-D. By the afternoon, leaders of major political parties agreed to write in the new constitution that the issues of provincial delineation related to Tharuwan, Madhes and other parts of the country would be settled through a federal commission.
On Thursday, the MPRF-D had refused to sign agreement stating the major parties denied mentioning the words 'Tharuwan and Madhes' in the agreement paper.
As Dahal took the initiative for the agreement, he discussed the issue with CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli and ministers Mahesh Acharya and Narahari Acharya from NC. Dahal, then, arranged a meeting with MPRF-D Chairman Bijaya Gachchhadar and informed him that the major three parties were ready to sign the agreement.
"Gachchhadar was ready to sign the agreement and he had informed leaders that he would join the Constituent Assembly after discussing the agreement with other leaders of his party. However, he didn't come to CA," said Khadka.
However, MPRF-D General Secretary Ram Janam Chaudhary said no verbal agreement had been reached on Sunday. "As a democratic party we are always ready for talks but none from our party leaders had agreed to sign any document. The major three political parties came up with an agreement paper and it was full of vague language. We could not trust the draft so we refused to sign it," said Chaudhary.
"And I was surprised to see how they misled the media about what had happened," he added.
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