Naya Nepal Naya Blog

At a time when the UML-led government is preparing to bring the budget and the policies and programmes for the upcoming fiscal year, UML chairman Jhala Nath Khanal has claimed that a national unity government would be formed within a week.

Speaking to reporters at Biratnagar airport on his way to Dhankuta on Friday, Khanal said the national unity government would be in place in a week as the politics is moving towards consensus.

The UML chairman made it clear that the Maoists could lead the government provided they fulfil the preconditions-- including the immediate return of properties seized by them during the insurgency and dismantling of the paramilitary structure of their youth wing, Young Communist League (YCL).

He also maintained that government formed merely by the majority of the parliament cannot solve the problem facing the country and that only a government inclusive of all the political parties would be able to find solution to the deadlock.

Khanal's statement comes at a time when some leaders of his party are said to have been advising the Prime Minister not to resign now while few senior leaders including general secretary Ishwor Pokharel have started ruling out the possibility of a national unity government.

The UCPN (Maoist) is all set to pile pressure on the Prime Minister for resignation, as it has already announced it would not allow the government to present the budget in the parliament.