Chairman of Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, storming out from the coalition meeting announced the end of the coalition, a senior Nepali Congress leader confirmed. "First you promised, now you backtracked. The coalition has lost its relevance" Ram Chandra Paudel, one of the se
Confirming the decision of the Maoist centre's chairman over the phone with ANI, Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel said that Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda has said that "the coalition has lost its relevance" and walked out of the meeting venue.
The meeting where Leaders of four political parties onboard Nepal's caretaker government came together today to come to an agreement ended with no result.
"If the Congress is adamant on their demand of holding the position of President and PM then there's no need for a coalition. We would simply walk out from it. This same statement was made in Saturday's meeting and is also conveyed today. We have come to the conclusion in the meeting to walk
Notably, the discussion between political leaders and the incumbent governmnet is going on at the Prime minister's residence in Baluwatar to break the ice and seal the agreement about who will lead the government first.
Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) has also been making overtures to the coalition members including the Congress and the CPN (Maoist Centre), coalition leaders are under pressure to strike a power-sharing deal among themselves.
NC General secretary-Thapa is challenging the NC President Deuba in the election scheduled for Wednesday. Both the aspirants reached the parliamentary party office in the administrative centre- Singhadurbar to file their nominations.
Out of 165 constituencies under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), results of 163 constituencies have been announced and the Nepali Congress has secured the highest number of seats.
Nepali Congress has got the single highest number of seats-53 under First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) even though it had contested the election forming an alliance of five different parties, according to the latest figures of the country's Election Commission.