By NNN-Xinhua
Kathmandu : Nepal’s ruling Seven Party Alliance (SPA) has turned down the request of the agitating United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) to postpone the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections by one month, according to local media on Monday.
The decision not to postpone the election was made by the top leaders of three main constituents of the ruling coalition government including the Nepali Congress (NC), Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) during a meeting held on Monday, reported the local media house’s website nepalnews.com.
The website quoted the parties as saying that the CA election procedure and talks would be go ahead simultaneously.
Emerging from meeting, CPN-UML general secretary Nepal said that the proposal put forth by UDMF to postpone the election was entirely unacceptable to the coalition partners.
Meanwhile, UDMF is also busy in internal discussions right now following late night talks in which the government talks team and UDMF reached a compromise on the key UDMF demand for a “One Madhes, one province” which they said would be decided through the Constituent Assembly.
The United Madhes Democratic Front (UMDF), a newly formed coalition comprising Terai- Madhesi Democratic Party (TMDP), Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF) and Sadbhawana Party has announced indefinite strike demanding single State status to the entire southern Terai region comprising 22 districts since Feb. 13.
Madhesi people are the Nepalese mainly living in south Nepal’s Terai plains.