By Sharachchandra Bhandary
Kathmandu, 23 February: Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN Maoist Center (MC) have agreed to revive the pre-election alliance. In a meeting held in Baluwatar on Wednesday evening in presence of Prime Minister and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba along with the main leaders of both parties an informal agreement has been reached to revive the old alliance.
A formal agreement will be reached by tonight after discussions with other parties in the old alliance, according to Baluwatar sources.
In the meeting, Dahal briefed about his discussion with CPN-UML Chair Khadga Oli and informed that the collaboration with the UML is almost over and now the NC and the MC should reach a formal agreement and move forward. ” Oli spoke the language of threats rather than agreement and cooperation,” Dahal shared the outcome of meeting.
Dahal said that while negotiating with the NC, the CPN (United Socialist) and the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) should also be taken along and included in the agreement.
The NC leaders stated that they were committed to take the CPN United Socialist and the JSP together as they stood against Oli when he dissolved the parliament twice as the Prime Minister.
Before going to Baluwatar, the NC leaders had a discussion with the leaders of the CPN United Socialist at the residence of Deuba in Dhumbarahi. Madhav Kumar Nepal, the Chairman of CPN US said that the party should have a respectable position in the new alliance and that his friends were urging him to become the president. Leader Nepal was assured of respectable share in government.
In the meeting between the NC and MC in Baluwatar, a discussion about how to reconcile Nepal in ‘power sharing’ took place and Baluwatar sources said that both parties have agreed to make leader Nepal Prime Minister within a certain period of time within the next five years.
People’s News Monitoring Service
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