KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Leaders of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) agreed on Wednesday to find a common sankalpa prastav (resolution motion) to resolve the ongoing political deadlock and pave way for the resumption of parliament. [break]
In a meeting held at the Prime Minister´s Office in Singha Durbar, the three political parties also agreed to amend the laws, if necessary, for it, said CPN-UML chief whip Bhim Acharya. The three parties will intensify bilateral meetings (Maoist-NC, NC-UML, Maoist-UML) in the next couple of days to finalize the draft of the motion. The motion has to be agreeable to all the three parties.
“The environment we have created so far is an achievement itself. We are sure we will break the ice in the next couple of days,” UML leader Bharat Mohan Adhikari told reporters.
The meeting was convened by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and attended by Maoist leaders Dr Baburam Bhattarai and Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Nepali Congress leaders Prakash Man Singh, Krishna Sitaula, Dr Ram Sharan Mahat and Bimalendra Nidhi, and UML leaders Acharya, Adhikari, Ishwar Pokharel.
Dr Mahat, however, told mediapersons that the consensual motion was just one of the options discussed in the meeting. “We need to do more homework before finalizing it,” Mahat said. Dr Mahat suggested no-confidence motion against the government and impeachment motion against the president as other options. The Maoists have rejected both the proposals. Maoist deputy parliamentary party leader Shrestha labeled the two options as irrelevant.
“We have agreed to find an alternative motion. The options proposed so far have not taken a concrete shape,” he said.
The three parties also held talks on Tuesday in an attempt to find a way out of the current deadlock. The Maoists have been demanding that they be allowed to file sankalpa prastav (resolution motion) against President Dr Ram Baran Yadav and debate it in parliament. Speaker Subas Nembang has rejected it saying it is against constitutional provisions.
A majority of the political parties have opposed the Maoist motion, maintaining that the president did nothing wrong in ruling against the erstwhile Maoist government´s move to sack then army chief Rookmangud Katawal.
As part of their protests against the move, the Maoists have resorted to obstructing the official functions attended by the president, prime minister and ministers.
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