The two-day meeting decided to move ahead on the issue with consensus among Unified CPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML, among other political parties, said party leaders.
“There is no way out except forging consensus on major issues,” CPN-UML chairman Jhala Nath Khanal told journalists at the party headquarters in Balkhu at the end of the meeting. "For that, we will start talks with other parties at bilateral, trilateral and multilateral levels."
When asked, what will be CPN-UML´s stance will be if the political parties fail to reach consensus, Ishwar Pokharel, general secretary of the party, said they will certainly reach a consensus.
Earlier, Khanal, deputy prime minister and vice chairman of the party Bam Dev Gautam, among other leaders of the party, had supported the Maoist decision to take action against Nepal Army chief Rookmangud Katawal.
KP Oli along with other senior leaders in the party had publicly lobbied against the party establishment´s decision to support the Maoist move.
Oli said the 11-member standing committee meeting took the decision in consensus.
At an informal meeting of the party´s central committee held on Friday, none of the members spoke in favor of the action against the army chief, according to Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, a central committee member.
After cutting short his week-long China visit, Khanal suddenly returned to Nepal and called an informal meeting of the central committee members available in the capital to thrash out the party´s stance on the government-army row.
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