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The major two allies of the outgoing coalition—the Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN-UML—concluded on Sunday that the formation of a national consensus government is possible only after the implementation of first point of the three-point deal. The two parties have decided to initiate dialogue with the UCPN (Maoist), one of three signatories of the last-minute deal, on the same.

The second and third largest parties in Constituent Assembly (CA) set the conditions before the Maoists after Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal resigned as per the three-point deal between the major three parties signed in the midnight of May 28 that extended the Constitutional Assembly (CA)’s tenure which was due to end minutes after it was signed.

A meeting between the two parties held at the UML Parliamentary Party office in Singha Durbar today reached the conclusion that the Maoists should implement the agreement related to the peace process and statute-drafting.

Saying that the environment of forge consensus could not be created due to the Maoists, the NC and UML stressed on the need for forging an agreement by holding a discussion among the big three parties. They categorically stated that only the implementation of first point of the three-point deal will pave way for consensus as the other point has been implemented.

In a separate discussion held on Saturday, the NC and the UML had raised the issue of peace process as condition. Following the meetings, they had resolved that the formation of Maoist-led government could be considered only after the execution of three point deal.

NC Acting President Sushil Koirala, Vice President Ram Chandra Poudel, Senior leader Sher Bahadur, UML Chairman Jhalanath Khanal and General Secretary Ishwor Pokhrel, among other leaders, were present at today’s meeting.

Three-point deal includes:

--> Moving ahead with consensus and cooperation to take the peace process to a meaningful conclusion, to carry out all the remaining works related to the peace process, and to accomplish the historic responsibility of completing the task for writing the new constitution.

--> Extending the tenure of the Constituent Assembly by one year.

--> Forming a national consensus government and for that, the prime minister of the incumbent coalition government is ready to resign without delay.