Naya Nepal Naya Blog

Fringe parties represented in the Constituent Assembly (CA) on Sunday said that they would not accept a national consensus government formed with the agreement of big three parties—UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress, CPN-UML—alone.

A meeting of the fringe parties held at Singha Durbar in the capital concluded that the national consensus government should be formed on the consensus of all the CA parties.

“The consensus government in the name of major three parties would not be acceptable to the small parties,” said Chure Bhabar Rastriya Party Chairman Keshav Mainali, emerging from the meeting. “The next government should be formed with the consent of all 25 parties in the CA.”

The meeting also called for an immediate implementation of first point of the three-point agreement reached between the big three parties on May 28.

The meeting also concluded that both the consensus and majority government formed without the implementation of first point of the agreement would be meaningless.

According to Mainali, the fringe parties' meeting maintained that dilly-dallying in the name of consensus should not obstruct the peace process. He said no parties can claim the government leadership unless consensus is forged. “The leadership of the government cannot be had just by being the largest party,” said Mainali adding, “Whoever is capable of forging consensus can take the government leadership.”