The interparty negotiations couldn't reach any conclusion as the leaders floated conflicting proposals to address dissatisfaction expressed by people in various parts of the country against the proposed demarcation of provinces.
"We tried our best to resolve the differences at today's meeting but couldn't. In the meantime, we have started to discuss other alternatives as well," Baburam Bhattarai, chairman of the CA's Constitutional Political Dialogue and Consensus Committee (CPDCC), said after the meeting on Wednesday.
According to him, the leaders have decided to hold intraparty discussions before taking final decision at Thursday's interparty talks. He also described Wednesday's hours-long interparty talks on demarcation dispute complicated.
Nepali Congress (NC) Vice-president Ram Chandra Poudel said some alternative proposals with five, seven or eight-province map have been floated for discussions.
CPN-UML's Bishnu Poudel, however, said that the leaders are not in a mood to change the number of provinces.
"Numbers will remain the same. We will seek solutions within the framework of the proposed six-province model," said Poudel.
The leaders' indecision, however, has caused delay in the task of revising the drafting constitution.
The drafting committee was given additional four days as it couldn't revise the draft within the five-day deadline given by the CA full House. The extended four-day deadline ends Friday.
"We started revising the draft constitution from today [Wednesday] itself. We don't halt our work. We will revise the draft based on the inputs given by the top leaders and forward it to CA full House," said Krishna Sitauala, chair of the drafting committee.
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