The Maoist Standing Committee took a decision to this effect Tuesday. "We have decided to intensify talks with the NC as well as with the other small parties for a national consensus government for the sake of peace and constitution," said Maoist spokesperson Dinanath Sharma. [break]
The Maoist decision comes four days after the party inked a three-point deal with the CPN-UML and agreed to withdraw its candidacy for the sake of consensus.
Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and NC parliamentary party leader Ram Chandra Paudel are currently in the prime ministerial race. "We don´t think the NC will become a hindrance to the politics of consensus by sticking to the ongoing election process,´ said Sharma.
Sharma said that the UCPN (Maoist) as the largest political party in the parliament should lead the government, but added that the party is open about the government leadership.
The Maoist party has also decided to hold its party plenum from October 23 in Chitwan. The separate documents presented by top three leaders -- Dahal, Mohan Baidya and Dr Baburam Bhattarai -- have been sent to lower level committees for discussion.
Dahal will try to prepare a new document accommodating the views of both Baidya and Bhattarai for presentation in the plenum. But leaders close to Bhattarai and Baidya rule out such possibility. They claim that the differences are sharp between Baidya and Bhattarai, while Dahal doesn´t have any ideological ground. ´So it is difficult that Dahal will be able to synthesize the document," said a Maoist central leader.
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