Unification with Baidya's party not possible: Dahal

BIRATNAGAR, June 10: UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that his party has not held any unification talks with the party´s breakaway faction CPN-Maoist, which is led by Mohan Baidya. Chairman Dahal also said there is no possibility of unification with the party anytime soon because Mohan Baidya has gone too far.



Speaking at a press conference here, he claimed that the reports suggesting unification between the two parties were not true. “I spoke to Mohan Baidya last night but we didn´t discuss party unification,” Dahal said.



Baidya has time and again accused Dahal of ignoring the demands and concerns of the former´s faction so he was forced to quit the party.



Dahal said, “We are for party unification; people of Nepal also want the same, but party unification is not possible anytime soon”.



On the ongoing dispute among the parties over the amending the election-related laws, Dahal said the parties are still at odds over the threshold issue. He said, “We (four political forces) could not finalize the threshold issues so we have asked the government to resolve it. We will agree to whatever solution the government comes up with,” Dahal said. He also said that the CA elections will certainly be held in November and Mohan Baidya´s party also should participate.

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