Seeking to break the constitutional deadlock, the CPN-UML, the third largest party in the Constituent Assembly, held consultations with Nepali Congress, the Madhesi front and other small parties in an effort to work out a Common Minimum Programme.
The CPN-UML, which is being backed by the main opposition party Nepali Congress, has said it is close to finalising an agreement with smaller groups to form a new government.
The Joint Madhesi Democratic Front, the grouping of three ethnic Indian Madhesi parties with a strength 83 seats in the 601-member Parliament, called on Prachanda here in a bid to persuade him to stop the Maoists from disrupting the parliament. The Maoist leader told the Madhesi parties not to hurry up the process for government formation.
Published 12 May 2009, 16:59 IST