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Consensus eludes Nepal’s parties

KATHMANDU: The deadline set by Nepal’s President Ram Baran Yadav for the parties of the Constituent Assembly to form government ended on Saturday. Though the parties claimed to form a national government, they could not forge consensus.

The largest party, UCPN (Maoists), maintained that a government cannot be formed unless the President withdrew his move that allowed Chief of the Army Staff Rookmangud Katawal, who was removed by them, to continue in his position.

Caretaker Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said political parties were playing a dirty game by “following the signals of foreign gods”. He said these parties were following former king Gyanendra’s line and that they wanted civil war. He blamed them for supporting military supremacy rather than civilian supremacy.

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