Agencies/Kathmandu
Leaders of Nepal’s UCPN (Maoist) including its chairperson Pushpa Kamal Dahal yesterday walked out of a three-party meeting accusing the ruling Nepali Congress and CPN-UML of not being serious in implementing a four-point agreement signed earlier.
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala convened the meeting at his official residence at Baluwatar, Kathmandu sort out differences with the key opposition party, and chart out ways for drafting a timely constitution. In particular, the meeting was supposed to focus on the nomination of 26 Constituent Assembly (CA) members.
The UCPN (M) leaders said the NC and UML leaders said at the meeting that the relevance of the four-point agreement has come to an end. It prompted the Maoists to leave the meeting.
“We clearly demanded that they implement the four-point agreement and move ahead. But the NC and UML leaders did not even want to touch on the issue,” UCPN (M) leader Narayan Kaji Shrestha said after the meeting.
The four-point agreement was signed among NC, UML, UCPN (M) and five Madhesi parties on December 24, 2013 following the completion of CA elections on November 19 that year.
The four points of the agreement include: setting up a parliamentary committee to investigate issues seen during the CA polls, forming a committee comprising top leaders of major political parties, promulgating a constitution within a year and taking initiatives to form a truth and reconciliation commission.
Nepali Congress, CPN UML and UCPN Maoist leaders at the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sushil Koirala.
