By Xinhua,
Kathmandu : The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) Chairman Prachanda termed the recent alliance between the other top three parties as “unholy”, saying that the alliance might “derail” the ongoing peace process.
“As the alliance, formed by Nepali Congress (NC), the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) and Madhesi People’s Rights Forum (MPRF), is non-political, it has raised questions regarding the fate of the ongoing peace process,” local newspaper The Rising Nepal Monday quoted Chairman Prachanda as saying.
However, Prachanda said that his party was not in rage and urged other parties not to act out or ire when speaking to journalists in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Sunday.
The CPN-M vice president candidate lost to MPRF on Saturday elections, while the latter gathered support from NC and CPN-UML.
The three parties went together when the CPN-M rejected NC’s proposal for Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and CPN-UML’s proposal for its former general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal to take the presidential post, and turned down to support MPRF’s vice president claim.
After MPRF bagged vice presidential post, the new alliance is highly supposed to make Ram Baran Yadav win the Monday’s presidential re-polling, while the CPN-UML is supposed to occupy the post of CA speaker in the near future, former reports from local media said.
On Saturday, the presidential election could not give a clear majority to both competing candidates, Ram Raja Prasad Singh nominated by the single largest CA party CPN-M and Dr. Ram Baran Yadav from NC and the re-polling was set on Monday.