The political parties also agreed to show maximum flexibility and work on the language of the draft concerning President Dr Ram Baran Yadav´s move to reinstate then army chief Rookmangud Katawal.
The first meeting of the joint taskforce of the three largest political parties decided that each of them would prepare a separate draft resolution and hold a meeting Thursday to seek terminology acceptable to all the parties and forge a joint resolution.
"We had been sticking to out stances. Now we have decided to show maximum flexibility to break the deadlock," said NC leader Arjun Narsing KC, a member of the taskforce. "But our point is that the president should not be censured as this is against the constitution and parliamentary regulations," he added.
According to Maoist leader Dev Gurung, the ruling parties are against directly stating that the president´s move was unconstitutional, but are ready to mention this indirectly. "We have agreed to look for terminology acceptable to all parties. But there will be consensus only when the draft conveys the sense that the president´s move was wrong," said Gurung. "They [NC and UML] should be as flexible as we have been if the deadlock is to end," he added.
On Friday, the political parties had formed a three-member taskforce comprising NC leader Arjun Narsing KC, UML leader Yubraj Gyawali and Maoist leader Dev Gurung, to frame a joint resolution after rounds of high-level meetings earlier failed to make any breakthrough.
The ruling parties had prepared a draft resolution mentioning the president´s move by way of background, but the Maoists rejected the draft, saying it conveys the sense that the Maoist-led government was wrong in deciding to sack the army chief and the president had to reinstate him to correct that move. They had demanded the draft unambiguously state that the president´s move was unconstitutional.
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