Kathmandu, Dec 25 :
Top leaders of parties in the ruling alliance who sat for a meeting since this morning at the Prime Minister’s official residence decided to take a break with the agreement to sit for a second meeting.
According to Nepali Congress leader and Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, the second meeting will be held after a while.
The meeting aimed to find a ground for forming the post-election government within the deadline of a week as called by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on December 18.
Talking to media after the meeting, the government Spokesperson said, “The alliance is the need of the nation, and the second meeting will resume in a while and we will reach to a decision.”
As the leader claimed, the validity of the Alliance has been already endorsed by the people during the recent elections and they will respect the people’s mandate.
The deadline of one week given by President Bidya Devi Bhandari to political parties for forming the post-election government is ending today. Political parties are effortful to claim the government leadership within the given deadline.
When no political party has won a clear majority in the recent elections, the President had called on political parties to form the government by 5:00 pm of December 25 in accordance with the Article 76 (2) of the Constitution.
The Article states : “If there is not a clear majority of any party according to clause (1), the President shall appoint as Prime Minister the member of the House of Representatives who can have the majority with the support of two or more political parties represented in the House of Representatives.”
The NC wins 89 seats followed by 78 of the CPN (UML), 32 by the Maoist Centre, 20 by the Rastriya Swatantra Party, 14 by the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, 12 of the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal and 10 by the CPN (Unified Socialist) in the lower house.
Likewise, the Janamat Party has secured six seats followed by four by the Loktantrik Samajbadi, three by the Nagarik Unmukti, one each by the Janamorcha and Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party and five by the independent candidates.
(RSS)
