If CA meet is convened to resume majority course, we will boycott it: Pokharel
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KATHMANDU, March 18: As relations between the ruling and opposition parties have soured over the last couple of days, Constituent Assembly (CA) Chairman Subas Nembang has called a meeting of top leaders of major political forces in Singha Durbar for Wednesday.
He expects the top-level meeting to lay grounds for resumption of stalled CA proceedings.
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, top leaders from Nepali Congress, CPN-UML UCPN (Maoist) Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N), Madhesi Peoples' Rights Forum-Democratic (MPRF-D) and MPRF-Nepal have been invited to the meeting.
The meeting is likely to take place in the afternoon as UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed his readiness to attend the meeting in the afternoon.
Nembang convened a meeting of chief whips from the four major political parties in his chamber on Tuesday with a view to making the top leaders' meeting result-oriented.
The CA chairman has been arguing that the CA meetings that have been stalled for indefinite period since March 12 can't remain in a state of uncertainty for long. He has been expressing dissatisfaction over the lack of progress in settling disputes in constitution making in consensus even as he deferred the CA meeting for indefinite period.
"I will ask the top leaders why they didn't make any progress in settling the disputes even as it's been over one month since I deferred the meeting," said Nembang.
Meanwhile, UCPN (Maoist) Chief Whip Giriraj Mani Pokharel said that convening CA meetings with a plan to resume the majority course will only vitiate the environment for consensus.
"We are attending interparty talks and parliamentary committee meetings just because the CA sittings have been deferred without fixing another date," said Pokharel, while emerging from the meeting with CA chairman. "If the CA meeting is convened to resume the majority course, we will not attend it."
He said the need of the hour is to make the interparty negotiations result-oriented and not to push for the majority course.
