At a meeting held between top leaders of two parties Friday morning in the prime minister’s office, Singh Durbar, the UML leaders said that the Maoist proposal on peace process, constitution writing and government formation was insufficient. [break]
Following the meeting, UML leader Bhim Rawal said the Maoist cannot be trusted on the basis of Thursday’s work plan as it was floated by being backtrack from the past agreements.
The UML has made it clear that the party is ready to hold additional discussions whether to support or not the Maoist party in the prime ministerial race if the proposed work plan was amended.
During the meeting, UCPN (Maoist) chairman, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, urged the UML leaders to support in a Maoist-led government formation as the concrete proposal was floated to conclude the peace process and draft the new constitution.
The UCPN (Maoist) has proposed the number of combatants for possible integration at around 8,000, initiating the process of regrouping of the combatants for the rehabilitation and integration within August 31 and handing over the combatants, arms and containers to the Special Committee in a concrete manner immediately after a Maoist-led government is formed.
However, both the parties have agreed to hold discussions prior to the prime ministerial election for the formation of the national consensus government.
Chairman Dahal, senior vice chairman, Mohan Baidhya, prime minister’s candidate and vice chairman, Dr Baburam Bhattarai, general secretary, Ram Bahadur Thapa, and other leaders were present in the meeting.
Similarly, Prime Minister and chairman, Jhala Nath Khanal, senior leaders Madhav Kumar Nepal and K P Sharma Oli, vice chairmen, Bamdev Gautam and Ashok Rai, general secretary, Ishwor Pokhrel, and other leaders were present from the UML’s side in the two party meeting.
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