The two-hour long meeting held at the PM’s official residence in Baluwatar on Tuesday took a decision to this effect. The meeting also decided to hold further talks on the issue, according to Malla K. Sundar, an ethnic leader who also attended at the meeting.[break]
Saying that formation of consensus government is a secondary issue for the time being, they emphasized on resolving the dispute of federalism, the key issue the erstwhile Constituent Assembly (CA) failed to settle.
They said that political consensus on federalism should be built on from the very point where it crumbled prior to the dissolution of the CA on May 27.
Sundar also informed that the leaders at the meeting were of the opinion that the dissolved CA could be revived to endorse the new constitution or fresh elections could also be held for fresh CA mandate after resolving the issue of federalism.
Ethnic leaders from CPN-UML and Nepali Congress including Ashok Rai, Prithvi Subba Gurung, Jeep Tsering Lama, Indra Man Gurung were also present at the meeting.
Earlier on Monday, the meeting of ruling alliance UCPN (Maoist) and United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) had also stressed on the need of such an alliance to press for the issue of single identity-based federalism.
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