KATHMANDU, Nov 20: The three-party taskforce representing the Unified CPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress (NC), and CPN (Unified Marxist-Leninist) has failed to find a way out of the ongoing political deadlock as the parties refused to budge from their stances. [break]
It is learnt that the new proposal put forth by the Maoists further complicated the matter. “We came to the conclusion that we can´t resolve the problem. Hence, we have decided to let the top leaders settle the issue,” said CPN-UML Secretary Yuvraj Gyawali, who is also a member of the panel.
Gyawali claimed that before the talks were initiated, the UML had made it clear that the taskforce´s main objective would be to seek solution through the joint resolution motion. “We had urged the Maoist leaders not to press us [ruling parties] to term the president´s move as unconstitutional and to change the government,” Gyawali told myrepublica.com.
On the other hand, UCPN (Maoist) leader Dev Gurung said that they decided to let the top brass resolve the problem as NC and UML leaders could not take any decision on the Maoist proposals. Gurung said that the Maoists have proposed the ruling parties to either accept the president´s move as unconstitutional or move ahead toward forming a national unity government to end the deadlock.
“This is the need of the hour. We can neither write the new constitution nor take the peace process to a logical end without cooperation among the parties,” Gurung said, adding that the Maoists are ready to move ahead without blaming the president if other parties are ready for their model of national unity government.
"But friends from NC and UML said that they can´t talk on the proposal of new government,” Gurung said.
Gyawali sees less possibility of reaching any agreement before NC President Girija Prasad Koirala returns home from Singapore. He said that the latest developments had indicated that chiefs of UCPN (Maoist), NC, CPN-UML and Madhesi People´s Rights Forum (Democratic) need to sit together to resolve the matter.
PM, Prachanda for middle path
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal held a meeting at the former´s residence in Koteshwar on Friday morning.
PM Nepal told reporters that they seriously talked about financial crisis and agreed to end the deadlock through a middle path.
Similarly, Dahal said that his party would come up with a clear stance on the issue of budget.
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