Nepal Parties Drafting C.M.P. To Form Maoist-led Govt

By Bernama,

Kathmandu : Nepal’s President Wednesday extended by three days a deadline for the Maoists to form the new government, triggering hectic parleys among the four major parties to formulate a common agenda for a coalition led by the ex-rebels to end the four-month-old logjam, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.


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A day after the Nepali Congress, C.P.N. (Maoist), C.P.N.-U.M.L. and Madeshi People’s Rights Forum decided to form a coalition government based on national consensus, a task force comprising their representatives held consultations here.

They discussed the formulation of the common minimum programme and the modalities of power-sharing, Nepali Congress general secretary Bimalendra Nidhi told P.T.I.

President Ram Baran Yadav extended by three days the deadline to allow the Maoists to form a new government as the seven-day time-frame set by him expired Tuesday without the ex-rebels succeeding to cobble up a majority.

The coming together of the four parties have increased hopes of a resolution of the political deadlock that plagued the nation since the April 10 Constituent Assembly polls saw the Maoists emerging as the single largest party.

The next government faces of the task of drafting a new constitution within two years and then hold the first parliamentary polls of republican Nepal.

The three other parties have rejected a C.M.P. formulated by the Maoists on the ground of being “one-sided”. They said the fresh C.M.P. will accommodate the programmes of all the four.

The Maoists’ C.M.P. included land reform programme, plan for youth employment, reviewing all international treaties signed in the past if necessary, reforming the army, restructuring state mechanism and attracting foreign investment based on national interest.

The Maoists and other parties have also agreed to forge “better understanding and clear all doubts and misunderstandings” created during the presidential polls.

They have agreed to fully implement all past agreements signed between the ex-rebels and the government including managing the Maoist combatants and their weapons and dissolving Maoists’ semi-military organisations before the formation of the next government, Nidhi said.

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