The much-awaited meeting between CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli has started at Balkot Wednesday afternoon. Dahal has reached Oli's residence in Balkot to end the lack of communication between the two parties over formation of the new government and party unification.
The meeting of the coordination committee for unifcation of the two parties could not be convened with Dahal leaving for Chitwan on Friday and busy in petty programs there. Dahal returned to Kathmandu and was expected to meet Oli Tuesday itself but the meeting could not happen.
The ongoing meeting between Oli and Dahal will decided when the coordination committee will meet and the meeting's agenda.
UML has grown suspicious due to Dahal’s comments while outside Kathmandu. “We had agreed to take turn to lead the government. I will discuss this issue in the meeting of coordination committee after returning to Kathmandu,” he said in Chitwan.
“UML was thinking about forming the government on its own as election results started to arrive believing that it will get a majority of its own. It started to talk about unification with us only after seeing that Nepali Congress (NC) was getting almost equal votes in proportional representation (PR) system,” he told his cadres in Kawasoti of Nawalparasi.
He then spoke about formation of the National Assembly and the increasing distance with Nepali Congress (NC) in Bhairahawa. He opined that the National Assembly cannot be vibrant without NC. He revealed that he told UML Chairman KP Oli to move forward by taking NC into confidence by ending the dispute about Single Transferable Vote system.
