Addressing a tea reception organized by the Dang-Kathmandu Journalists Society here on Saturday, on the occasion of the Dashain and Tihar festivals, the CPN-Maoist chairman commented that the President´s step at a time when there is no Parliament would invite more complications.[break]
"A serious doubt has arisen whether the President was trying to take a wrong step by going against the Interim Constitution by making a call to the parties for the formation of government,´ he said.
He said that he did not see any possibility of the formation of a new government with the political parties arriving at a consensus within the deadline set by the President. A question has arisen as to what next if consensus could not be forged among all the political parties to that end, he added.
The CPN-Maoist chairman said that all the political parties should be conscious to that fact that any government to be formed in the present context when the country is without a Parliament would not be considered legitimate.
He said the President´s step on the one hand to permit the government to continue functioning by approving the budget for eight months and to call for the formation of a new government on the other was in itself perplexing.
Also speaking in the programme, Chief of the UCPN (Maoist)´s Foreign Department, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, said that if the President´s call was well-intentioned, it would create further pressure on the parties for arriving at consensus.
He also expressed the confidence that the political deadlock would end soon if a government of national consensus could be formed within November 29 as per the President´s call and a date for election could be announced.
Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the dissolved Constituent Assembly, Nilambar Acharya expressed the view that an independent person should be made the Prime Minister as there is no possibility of the political parties reaching a compromise on a prime ministerial candidate.
Nepali Congress leader Baladev Sharma Majgainya, former CA member Rukmini Chaudhari, former Chief Justice Harihar Sharma, advocate Bhimarjun Acharya, among other speakers, spoke of the need of constituting a government of national consensus and there was no alternative to this.
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